Novell Storage Services
| Developer(s) | Novell |
|---|---|
| Full name | Novell Storage Services |
| Introduced | 1998 with NetWare 5 |
| Partition identifier | 0x69 |
| Structures | |
| Directory contents | B+ tree |
| File allocation | ? |
| Bad blocks | ? |
| Limits | |
| Max. volume size | 8 TiB |
| Max. file size | 8 TiB |
| Max. number of files | 8 trillion |
| Max. filename length | 256 16-bit Unicode characters |
| Allowed characters in filenames | Variable; depends on namespace being used |
| Features | |
| Dates recorded | Access, Creation, Modified, Archived, Metadata Modified |
| Date range | Unknown |
| Forks | Yes (available through the AFP namespace, which is always loaded) |
| Attributes | Readonly, Hidden, System, Archive, Sharable, Transaction, Immediate Purge, Rename Inhibit, Delete Inhibit, Copy Inhibit, Link, Remote Data Access, Remote Data Inhibit, Compress Immediate, Data Stream Compress, Do Not Compress, No Stream Compress, Attr Archive, Volatile, Execute |
| File system permissions | Netware ACLs: Supervisor, Read, Write, Create, Erase, Modify, File Scan, Access Control; POSIX (RWX per owner, group and all) when NFS namespace is loaded |
| Transparent compression | Yes |
| Transparent encryption | Yes |
| Other | |
| Supported operating systems | Novell NetWare, SUSE Linux |
Novell Storage Services (NSS) is a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system. Support for NSS was introduced in 2004 to SUSE Linux via low-level network NCPFS protocol. It has some unique features that make it especially useful for setting up shared volumes on a file server in a Local Area Network.
NSS is a 64-bit journaling file system with a balanced tree algorithm for the directory structure. Its published specifications (as of NetWare 6.5) are:
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