| NSS | |
| Full Name: | Novell Storage Services |
| Developer: | Novell |
| Introduction Os: | NetWare 5 |
| Copy On Write: | Yes / snapshots |
| Website: | https://www.novell.com/documentation/open-enterprise-server-2018/stor_nss_lx/data/front.html |
| Partition Id: | 0x69 |
| Directory Struct: | B+ tree |
| File Struct: | ? |
| Bad Blocks Struct: | ? |
| Max Filename Size: | 256 16-bit Unicode characters |
| Max Files No: | 8 trillion |
| Max Volume Size: | 8 EB |
| Max File Size: | 8 EB |
| Max Partition Size: | 8 [Exabytes|EB]] |
| Max Device Size: | 8 [Exabytes|EB]] |
| Filename Character Set: | Variable; depends on namespace being used |
| Dates Recorded: | Access, Creation, Modified, Archived, Metadata Modified |
| Date Range: | Unknown |
| Forks Streams: | Yes (available through the AFP namespace, which is always loaded) |
| Attributes: | Readonly, Hidden, System, Archive, Sharable, Transaction, Immediate Purge, Rename Inhibit, Delete Inhibit, Copy Inhibit, Link, Remote Data Access, Remote Data Inhibit, Compress Immediate, Data Stream Compress, Do Not Compress, No Stream Compress, Attr Archive, Volatile, Execute |
| File System Permissions: | Netware ACLs: Supervisor, 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 |
| Os: | Novell NetWare, SUSE Linux |
Novell Storage Services (NSS) is a file system used by the Novell NetWare network operating system. Support for NSS was introduced in 2004 to SUSE Linux via low-level network NCPFS protocol. It has some unique features that make it especially useful for 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: