Novell Storage Services

Novell Storage Services (NSS) is a file system used by Novell's Netware Operating system and recently ported to Linux. It 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:

• 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: Microsoft Microsoft Windows Long names (loaded by default), Unix, Apple Macintosh

See also

• Comparison of file systems

External links

• Article about NSS
• Configuring NSS