Hot Fix

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)