Novell Storage Services (NSS) is a file system used by Novell's NetWare Operating system and recently ported to Linux. It has some unique features that make it especially useful for, but not limited to, setting up shared volumes on a file server in a Local Area Network. In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ... Novell was also the name of a road bicycle racing team. ... NetWare is a network operating system and the set of network protocols it uses to talk to client machines on the network. ... Unix systems filiation. ... In telecommunication, the term file server has the following meanings: A high-capacity disk storage device or a computer that hosts files so that they may be accessed or retrieved by other computers on the same network. ... A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a local area, like a home, office or small group of buildings such as a college. ...

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: A journaling file system is a file system that logs changes to a journal (usually a circular log in a specially-allocated area) before actually writing them to the main file system. ... B-trees are tree data structures that are most commonly found in databases and filesystem implementations. ...

• Maximum file size: 8TiB
• Maximum volume size: 8TiB
• Maximum files per volume: 8 trillion, up to 8TiB total volume size
• Maximum mounted volumes per server: unlimited if all are NSS
• Maximum open files per server: 1 million
• Maximum directory tree depth: limited only by client
• Maximum volumes per partition: unlimited
• Maximum extended attributes: no limit on number of attributes.
• Maximum data streams: no limit on number of data streams.
• Unicode characters supported by default
• Support for different name spaces: DOS, Microsoft Windows Long names (loaded by default), Unix, Apple Macintosh
• Support for restoring deleted files (salvage)
• Support for transparent compression
• Support for encrypted volumes
• Support for data shredding

A tebibyte is a unit of information or computer storage, commonly abbreviated TiB. 1 tebibyte = 240 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes The tebibyte is closely related to the terabyte, which can either be a synonym for tebibyte, or refer to 1012 bytes = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes... Metadata is data about data. ... In computing, an alternate data stream (ADS) is additional data associated with a file system object. ... In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ... The iMac G5, Apples flagship consumer desktop. ... In human-computer interaction, computer transparency is an aspect of user friendliness which prevents the user from worrying about technical details (like installation, updating, downloading or device drivers). ... Look up Shred on Wiktionary, the free dictionary To shred an item is literally to rip or tear it into strips. ...

See also

• Comparison of file systems
• List of file systems

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file systems. ... The following is a list of file systems. ...

External links

• Article about NSS
• Configuring NSS