<storage> Novell, Inc.'s term for the feature of their
network file server operating system, Novell NetWare,
which handles errors in disk write operations. The OS
re-reads every block it writes to disk while it holds the data
to be written in memory. In the case of an error, the data
block is written to a spare area on the disk.
The feature lost much of its importance with the widespread
use of hard disk drives with built-in error correction and
bad block re-mapping.
(1997-05-27)
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