Novell, InC.' s term for the feature of their network file serveroperating 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)