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Open Source NetWare File System: remove NetWare 286 stuff, these numbers are for the 286 FS not 386
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Transparent file compression was also supported, although this had a significant impact on the performance of file serving.
 
Every name space requires its own separate directory entry for each file. While the maximum number of directory entries is 16,000,000, two resident name spaces would reduce the usable maximum number of directory entries to 8,000,000, and three to 5,333,333.
 
16-bit NWFS could handle volumes of up to 256MB. However, its only name space support was a dedicated [[Application programming interface|API]] to handle Macintosh clients.