On Feb 17, 1:13 pm, Faeandar wrote:
On 16 Feb 2007 11:40:09 -0800, wrote:

Hi,
How do ILM products like kazeon that migrate files to alternate
storage deal with Windows Explorer that do directory listings and try
to open each and every file to read the data (for thumbnails)?

Will this cause Kazeon to restore the files from alternate storage
back onto the primary disks?

Bargav

Lookup operations are not the same as access operations. Only access
ops cause an un-migration.

Also, there are no ILM "products". ILM is a process, if you don't
have that then you don't have ILM. You just have HSM.

~F

I think the OP is worried about exactly that. As far as I understand,
when Windows Explorer looks into a directory, it will often open and
read (ie. access) the files within so as to create thumbnails,
previews and the like. The question is, in spirit, similar to one I
posed a few weeks ago regarding full-text searches. I think what we're
all wondering is, given these application behaviors, how can migration
products really be both "automatic" and still provide the intended
benefit.

Thanks,
Ron