NSS Volume Support

---

Pervasive.SQL supports NetWare Storage Services (NSS) volumes on NetWare 5 and up, provided that you load the NSS volumes prior to starting the database engine. For example, you should issue the BSTART or MGRSTART command only after loading the NSS volumes as shown here:

LOAD NSS 
MOUNT ALL 
SYS:ETC\INITSYS.NCF 
MGRSTART or BSTART 

Also, please note that database updates performed against data files on NSS volumes may run more slowly than with earlier versions of NetWare. As noted in Novell TID 2952147 (http://www.novell.com), "NSS is optimized for reading files." Updates "will almost always perform a little faster on the legacy file system."

Based on this information, you may wish to store frequently-updated data files on regular NetWare volumes rather than NSS volumes.