Not entirely true, I believe.  If the directory tree for a particular node
exceeds a certain size, it DOES get stored in a storage pool...although
I'm a little foggy as to what that size is.  That's the whole idea behind
the DIRMC parameter...sot that you can control where the directory info
winds up in the event that it does go to a storage pool.

-Lloyd


On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:02:07 +0200
Remco Post <r.post AT SARA DOT NL> wrote thusly:

> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:12:34 -0400
> Marc Levitan <marc.levitan AT PFPC DOT COM> wrote:
>
> > What would happen if there was a site disaster and the data was only
> > on the disk which is no longer available to perform restores?
> > I guess what I am asking is, without sending DIRMC off-site, can you
> > recover from a site disaster?
> >
>
> Even better, directories are never stored in storagepools, just in the
> database, so in case of a disaster, you will never loose any data as
> long as you have off-site db backups.
>
>
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