hot fix

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)