Identifies a system in which hot spares are available to replace a failed drive with a hot spare. This is not a physical replacement of the drive. The hot spare is simply loaded with data that was previously on the failed drive and then the operation continues.
A NetWare feature that monitors the blocks that are being written to on a disk. When a bad block is encountered, the data that was being written to that block is redirected to a separate area on the disk, called the disk redirection area, and the bad block is listed in a bad block table. See also Disk redirection area.
a software fix that addresses a single
a term used for a quick, important fix for a bug that cannot wait until the next release to be fixed
A fix/patch addressing one or more defects, which is inserted directly into a production environment by a support developer.
NetWare feature that marks faulty tracks on a drive and stores data that would normally go there to a Hot Fix Redirection Area.
Microsoft's term for a bug fix, which is accomplished by replacing one or more existing files in the operating system or software application with revised versions.
In a Microsoft NT File System (NTFS), hot fixing of disk sectors prevents data from being stored in a bad sector or cluster. During a hot fix, the operating system automatically detects bad disk sectors, relocates the data to a safe cluster and marks the bad cluster as unusable to the system. This process is transparent to the user, requires no interaction on the user's part and does not report any error messages (such as Abort, Retry or Fail) to any applications