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  Full Name Novell Storage Services
  Developer Novell
  Introduction Os Netware 5
  Introduction Date 1998
  Partition Id NSS <br> 0x69 ( MBR )
  Directory Struct B+ Tree
  File Struct
  Bad Blocks Struct
  Max Filename Size 256 characters
  Max Files No 8 Trillion
  Max Volume Size 8 TiB
  Max File Size 8 TiB
  Filename Character Set Variable depends on namespace being used
  Dates Recorded Access, Creation, Modified, Archived
  Date Range Unknown
  Forks Streams Yes, when AFP namespace is loaded
  Attributes
  File System Permissions Netware ACLs: Read, Write, Create, Erase, Modify, File Scan, Access Control POSIX (RWX per owner, group and all, when NFS namespace is loaded)
  Compression Yes
  Encryption Yes


Novell Storage Services ('''NSS''') is a File System used by the Novell 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 .

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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