[LAD] NSM - handling large files

[Lieven Moors]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:31:57PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
> Am 30. März 2012 03:29 schrieb J. Liles <malnourite at gmail.com>:
> 
> >
> > If all Linux Audio software dealt with external references in this
> > way, archiving/export would be much less problematic.
> >
> 
> Finding a solution for externals, was the whole point of this discussion.
> 
> After all the many arguments, I'm now feeling too,
> that symlinks are the right thing for NSM.
> 
> Thank you everyone, for participating.
> 
> 
> > Furthermore, in addition to the plain old symlinks, a truly robust
> > solution might also store e.g. SHA1 hashes of external files, so that
> > any mismatch is detectable.
> >
> Interesting point.
> 

Would there be anything against using hard links?
Isn't it nice that you can delete the original files,
knowing that that are save when used in a session.

Portability would be a problem of course,
and deleting files might become more difficult
then you would like.

But if you would be able to control this with the
session manager, it might be a desirable feature.

lieven