Techniques are provided for processing read operations while splitting a clone volume from a parent volume whose data is stored within objects of an object store. A transfer map is created to track mappings of child object identifiers to parent object identifiers of the parent objects to copy as child objects having the child object identifiers. The transfer map for the object store is traversed to copy the parent objects as the child objects for the split clone operation. The child objects are verified as being successfully created with valid data. In response to determining that the parent object has been copied as the child object, a context check is performed using the reverse map to verify a block within the child object. In response a successful context check, the read operation is processed using the block of the child object.