Caveats

The following caveats exist when renaming directories that are in GuardPoints:

1. A directory rename operation changes path names to an unknown number of files. As such, LDT cannot accurately estimate completion time on the target GuardPoint. In such a situation, the rekey progress reflected on the key manager may show that the GuardPoint is in 100% rekeyed status, and the status remains in the 100% rekeying status, until the files in the renamed directories are rekeyed to completion.

2. Directory rename operations also affect the accuracy of LDT statistics. Those files, in a renamed directory that are not rekeyed when the directory is renamed, are no longer accessible as part of rekeying the GuardPoint. However, those files will be rekeyed as part of rekeying the renamed directory. As the GuardPoint level rekey operations fail to find those non-rekeyed files, LDT stats update to reflect those files as ‘passed’ and their size is added to the ‘truncated’ stat. When those files are rekeyed, as part of the renaming directory rekey process, the ‘rekeyed’ status will be correctly updated.

3. The net effect of renaming a directory during a rekey will be reflected in an inaccurate ‘passed’ count, and the amount of data truncated for each file not rekeyed in the renamed directory.