User Guide

Overview 17
Novell Storage Services Administration Guide
103-000141-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Important Information about NSS RAID
 Each element in the RAID configuration should come from a different
device. NSS will let you obtain RAID elements from the same device, but
this will severely impede the performance of your file system.
 Currently, the NSS RAID supports RAID 0.
 The stripe size ranges between 4 KB and 256 KB in increments of 2 KB.
Features Not Currently Supported by NSS
The following features are available in the traditional NetWare file system but
are not currently supported by NSS:
 Block suballocation
 Auditing
 File name locks
 Data migration
NSS Architecture
With NSS, you can use storage pools, logical volumes, traditional volumes,
and remote devices to maintain your file system. You store logical volumes in
storage pools on NSS partitioned space. You store traditional volumes directly
in space partitioned for traditional volumes. The following diagram illustrates
the NSS configuration with the available file system options: