Why should I archive now?

Hi Family, this is from the department of possible brain damage. I am building a new ODS envrionment 7.13.UC1. I realized that when I created dbspace number 5 (named garpac) I had neglected to use the full length of the raw device. Rather than add a chunk to the dbspace to fill out the device, I decided to drop the dbspace and recreate it at its full length. In onmonitor, I went into DBSpace/Drop and dropped "garpac", as I've many times in the past. I got this pair of messages: DBspace/BLOBspace successfully dropped. ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive will need to be done before any chunks from DBspace garpac can be reused (see OnLine Administrator's manual). Huh? What kind of requirement is that? If I were to perform an archive now, would it save the pages from the dbspace that no longer exists? It would be closer to making sense if it required the level-0 archive *before* I drop a dbspace. And even that would be dumb; after all, we can drop only an empty dbspace and there would be no point in archiving that! I tried to recreate the same-named dbspace over the disk space of the dropped area. It not only worked, it was restored as dbspace # 5. So the whole message seems to have been a red herring (which I dislike even more than schmalz herring! ;-). Obviously I have no problem here; I'm just asking if anyone can make sense out of the bogus requirement. Thanks. -- -- Jake (In pursuit of undomesticated aquatic avians) +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |Insofar as manifestations of functional deficiencies are agreed| |by any and all concerned parties to be imperceivable, and are | |so stipulated, it is incumbent upon said heretofore mentioned | |parties to exercise the deferment of otherwise pertinent | |maintenance procedures. | +------------------- A Legal Minded Engineer (hardyharhar.com) -+