Personally I prefer Ardour's behavior myself. I do keep my samples on an
external drive, but in the end the ability to maintain a self-contained
session for portability purposes is important to me. But to each their own.
Seablade
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org>wrote:
> 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
>
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