ARCHIVE on Oracle 8.1.7.2

What could cause a production datafile to request media recovery and apply *.arc logfiles after taking it offline to move it to a different disk?

Steps and Results:

1) Took Hot Backup of production datafile;
2) Took production datafile offline; (Feb. 17)
3) Removed OS link used to point to old device location;
4) mv datafile to new location;
5) Created new link used to point to new device location;
6) alter database datafile '.......' ONLINE; (Did not need to

   change location in database because symbolic link path did    not change in database)
7) ** At this point, database requested all archive logs from

   3 days prior (Feb. 14) to current time (Feb. 17); 6) Second alternative was to restore datafile (from backup taken

   right before step 1, which would be current); But database    still requested applied logs from Feb. 14(same as before);

Can anyone suggest situations or parameter settings that could cause this?

Thanks Received on Sun Feb 17 2002 - 17:20:54 CST