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Line 29: The NetWare file system was the first storage architecture to employ sector remapping for failed drive sectors called drive hotfixing which would redirect sector mapping to a reserved area of the device. Later Disk Drive manufactuters employed the same technique internally within the drive logic to perform a similiar function transparently to the host operating system. The NWFS on-disk format for NetWare 3.x, 4,x, and 5.x was publically released on Linux in 1998 and 1999 by former Novell Chief Scientist Jeff Merkey and Darren Major from the Timpanogas Research Group. The published specifications for 32-bit NWFS are: * Maximum file size: 4GB

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