On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:07:07PM +0200, Lieven Moors wrote: > Would there be anything against using hard links?
A hard link makes the file pointed to part of the session directory, just as moving or copying the file would. There is no difference between a hard link and the original - both are hard links. So such a file is no longer recognisable as 'external' and the choice of including it or not in an archive or a copy no longer exists. That defeats the original purpose which is to have this choice. Apart from that, hard links are possible only within the same file system. There are good reasons to keep big audio files etc. on a separate one. That in itself is a motivation for 'external' data in first place. I don't want hundreds of Gigabytes of audio files on my /home partition, let alone in my home directory. Ardour makes this mistake of creating hard links if by chance it happens to be possible, and even if the user explicitly expressed his/her choice to keep a file out of the session directory. It's inconsistent and unreliable behaviour and only creates problems. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
