Oracle Database Discussions

Hi,

I am performing certain testings in a database and I have set the archive destination (log_archive_dest) to E:\bkp\arch.

The archives are getting stored at the specified path (E:\bkp\arch). But physically, if I rename the directory "arch" to something else and do not make any changes in the pfile & spfile, the database should get hung or throw me error that the archive destination is unavailable.

But, it is not throwing any error and the archives are getting generated to the directory by 1 level up. I mean, the archives are now getting generated in E:\bkp\ location eventhough the pfile & spfile show as log_archive_dest='E:\bkp\arch'

Why would Oracle not throw any error ?