NetWare File System: Difference between revisions

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* Support for different name spaces: [[Microsoft]] [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] Long names, [[Unix]], [[Apple Computer|Apple]] [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]]

* Support for restoring deleted files (salvage)

* Support for journaling (transaction tracking service)

* Support for block suballocation

Transparent file compression was also supported, although this had a significant impact on the performance of file serving.

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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 didcould nothandle havevolumes of up to 256MB. However its only name space support andwas coulda handlededicated volumesAPI ofto uphandle toMacintosh 256MBclients.

== See also ==