I have to rebuild a Netware 5.1 Service...
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Nov 2002
Q.
I have to rebuild a Netware 5.1 Service Pack 3 server's volumes. Should I take the opportunity to switch the volumes to NSS or stick with traditional file volumes until we eventually upgrade to Netware 6? I've heard lots of horror stories with people using NSS volumes, and I don't want to become one of the statistics. We would need full support for directory quotas, and it must work with Legato Networker.
A.
I would recommend staying with the traditional NetWare volumes on a NetWare 5.1 server. In my opinion, NSS v3 that comes with NetWare 6 is much more fully baked than the NSS on NetWare 5.1. It's feature complete in comparison to the traditional file system, and NetWare 6 is really built around it. I've been running it for quite a while in my labs, and everything has worked great (except I have a problem where some people are reported as using negative disk space).
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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