Novell Open Enterprise Server provides the Novell Storage Services™ (NSS) File System for both the OES NetWare® and OES SUSE® Linux kernels. Its many features and capabilities include visibility, a trustee access control model, multiple simultaneous names pace support, native Unicode*, user and directory quotas, rich file attributes, multiple data stream support, event file lists, and a file salvage sub-system. These features can help you effectively manage your shared file storage for any size organization, scaling management of the system for even the largest of organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees.
NSS volumes are cross compatible between kernels. You can
mount a non-encrypted NSS data volume on either kernel—Linux
or NetWare—and move it between them. For information, see Compatibility
Issues for Using NSS Cross-Platform
in the Novell
Storage Services File System Administration Guide for OES.
In a clustered SAN, NSS volumes can fail over between kernels, allowing for full data and file system feature preservation when migrating data to Linux. However, you cannot SAN boot cross-platform. For information, see the OES Novell Cluster Services 1.8.2 Administration Guide for Linux.
You can manage all storage management functions in the Web-based Novell iManager utility and NSS Management utility. NSS also supports third-party tools on both kernels for advanced data protection and management, virus scanning, and traditional archive and backup solutions.
For information, see the Novell Storage Services File System Administration Guide for OES