Hot Fix
{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)