On Tuesday, 03/11/2008 at 03:17 EDT, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
IMO, sanity checks are in the domain of directory maintenence products. > 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. While GLOBALV is useful for setting default behavior (e.g. DEFAULTS), I wouldn't propose using it as a database of directory metadata. Adding USER DIRECT metadata to the object directory seems useful and is relatively straightforward to implement. I'd want filename, file timestamp, and source mdisk. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
