Novell Storage Services

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: