1. A system adapted to maintain an increased number of persistent consistency point images (PCPI), the system comprising: at least one storage device adapted to store a volume information (volinfo) block, the volinfo block being a root of a tree of blocks, the volinfo block further comprising metadata describing a plurality of file systems; wherein the tree of blocks comprises a plurality of direct file system information (fsinfo) block, each of the fsinfo blocks being associated with one of the plurality of file systems.