Subj : Netware 4.11 to 5
To   : Bonno Bloksma
From : Nik Larin
Date : Sun Oct 22 2000 02:32 pm

Hi.

 Bonno Bloksma wrote in a message to Rob McPhee:

 BB> If you have verry large volumes (30+GB) and don't need:
 BB> - mirroing by Netware itself, meaning you don't mirror at all or
 BB> allready have RAID doing it for you;
 BB> - limiting diskspace per user, meaning volume or directory space
 BB> restrictions 
Support for this feature was added in one of Support Packs (I don't remember
exactly, but having SP5 installed on your NW5 server will give you access to
this feature). Configuration can be done from within ConsoleOne only.

 BB> then consider using NSS volumes in stead of the
 BB> tradition Netware partitions. 
Another thing to mean is that NW5 NSS (as well as NW5.1's) does not support
Block Suballocation, Compression, and Migration features.
Novell promises mature NSS in the next NetWare release which is expected on the
market in the mid of 2001 (NetWare 6 aka 6 Pack).

A lot of other things are coming with NetWare 5, but usefulness of each one
actually depends on how do you plan to use your new NetWare server. In fact,
NetWare 5 upgrade means NetWare 5.1 upgrade, since NetWare 5 is removed from
Novell price lists since NetWare 5.1 has been started to ship in Jan 2000.
There are some additional goodies in NetWare 5.1 Red box among mentioned
NetWare 5 pros.

nik 
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