NetWare File System: Difference between revisions

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{{Infobox filesystem|

| name = NWFS

| developer = [[Novell]]

| full_name = NetWare File System

| introduction_date =

| introduction_os =

| partition_id =

| directory_struct =

| file_struct =

| bad_blocks_struct =

| max_file_size = 4 [[Gibibyte|GiB]]

| max_files_no =

| max_filename_size =

| max_volume_size = 1 [[Tebibyte|TiB]]

| dates_recorded =

| date_range =

| date_resolution =

| forks_streams =

| attributes =

| file_system_permissions =

| compression = Yes

| encryption =

| OS = [[Novell NetWare]]

}}

In [[computing]], a '''NetWare File System''' ('''NWFS''') is a [[file system]] based on a heavily-modified version of [[File Allocation Table|FAT]]. It was used in the [[Novell NetWare]] [[operating system]]. It is the default and only file system for all volumes in versions 2.x through 4.x, and the default and only file system for the SYS volume continuing through version 5.x. Novell developed two varieties of NWFS:

# 16-bit NWFS 286, used in NetWare 2.x

# 32-bit NWFS 386, used in NetWare 3.x through NetWare 6.x.

[[Novell Storage Services]] (NSS, released in 1998), superseded the NWFS format.

The NWFS on-disk format was never publicly documented by Novell. The published specifications{{factCitation needed|date=December 2010}} for 32-bit NWFS are:

* Maximum file size: 4GB

* Maximum volume size: 1TB

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* Maximum directory tree depth: 100 levels

* Characters used: ASCII double-byte

* Maximum [[Metadata_Metadata (computing)|extended attributes]]: 16

* Maximum [[Fork (filesystem)|data streams]]: 10

* Support for different name spaces: [[Microsoft]] [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] [[Long filename|Long names]] (A.K.A. [[OS/2]] namespace), [[Unix]], [[Apple Computer|Apple]] [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]]

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* [http://www.novell.com/documentation/nw51/nss__enu/data/h5grftdf.html Another specification comparison page]

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