User Guide

Overview of Traditional File System 11
Traditional File Services Administration Guide
103-000180-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Because of this, volumes with a smaller block size require more server
memory to mount and manage.
However, if most of your files are small, a large block size wastes disk
space.
 The volume's DET is loaded into memory
If a volume fails to mount, it might be because you have run out of RAM. This
is because the FAT takes up cache buffers.
NOTE: The new file system, Novell Storage Services (NSS), mounts volumes
more quickly and can mount any size volume with 1 MB of memory. NSS volumes
can be used along with traditional NetWare volumes. For information about NSS
and its advantages, see Overview in the Novel Storage Services Administrator
Guide.
Volume Objects in NDS
In NDS
®
, each volume is also a Volume object. Volume objects are leaf
objects that represent a physical volume on the network.
In the Volume object's properties, you can store information about which
NetWare server the physical volume is located on and the volume name
recorded when the volume was initialized at the server (for example, SYS:).
You can also store information such as the volume's owner, space use
restrictions for users, or a description of its use.
You can also view statistical information on disk space availability, block size,
directory entries, name space support, etc.
Understanding Volume Segments
A volume segment is a physical division of a volume. Different segments of a
volume can be stored on one or more hard disks, allowing you to create large
volumes.
A single NetWare partition can only contain eight traditional NetWare
volumes. You can create up to four NetWare partitions per drive (three if the
device also has a DOS partition). Each of these NetWare partitions can only
contain eight volume segments.
By placing segments of the same volume on multiple hard disks, different
parts of the same volume can be read from or written to simultaneously,
speeding up disk input and output.