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Abbreviation for "balanced tree."A compact structure that allows the Novell Storage Services (NSS) system to retrieve an object from disk in no more than four I/O cycles. B-trees also allow the system to locate an object anywhere in storage without loading the entire directory entry table (DET) into memory.