[LAD] NSM - handling large files

Thomas Vecchione seablaede at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 19:34:02 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:11 PM, J. Liles <malnourite at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Paul Giblock <pgiblox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I didn't necessarily mean for transport or archival. I imagine "just
> > dereference it" is one of the motivations for links in the first place.
> I
> > was more concerned about windows users, or people with large external
> > (fat32) drives who wish to use this filesystem for their live session
> > storage.  I just checked and NTFS at least supports symlinks.
>
> Anyone attempting to store their production audio sessions on a fat32
> filesystem is certifiably insane anyway...
>

Can't agree with that.  USB Thumb Drives for instance are still one of the
most common ways to transport sessions and other data and are often
formatted FAT32 for interoperability purposes.

          Seablade
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