On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  While trying to reconstruct a source directory from an object directory
>  might seem logical, far too much information is "lost in translation".

Obviously it would be really easy to write a wrapper around DIRECTXA
that also runs DIRMAP (or what it is called these days) and extra
sanity checks *before* bringing the directory online. Sometimes it
makes sense to also detect the change to mini disks that are currently
linked by logged-on users (typically for something you need to do
after the new directory is online).

While you can keep a lot in GLOBALV, it might be nice if DIRECTXA
would place de FSTAT of the source directory in the object in a way
that CP can tell it us. If you also keep your set of copies, it would
identify which source is currently online.

PS I also think it would be very practical if we would have the userid
and device address of mini disks in the VTOC of the real volume. For
people doing physical backup it would be more reliable than a copy of
the directory. But I don't want to think about how complicated this
will make DIRECTXA.

Rob

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