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rick_s · 10-31-2012, 09:44 AM

Hi,

as a frequent user of hardlinks I think this is a very useful item. I was wondering though.

A few months ago I made the suggestion (on a ticket) to use hardlinks for importing/copying books into calibre if they are on the same partition.

I was told this isn't possible because of the database format of calibre or something with streams. I don't recall exactly and didn't understand it then anyway.

So, if there can be hardlink copies within the calibre library like in 0.9.4 why not from outside for the import? Am I seeing something wrong?

I still think this would be very useful. First for the speed-up reason. And then you could keep old library structures without wasting space. And this would put an end to the recurring discussion and wishes of changing the calibre library format to accommodate preferences to a different storage way without compromising any of the design decisions for calibre.

10-31-2012, 09:44 AM	#1
rick_s Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: none	Hardlinks in 0.9.4 Hi, as a frequent user of hardlinks I think this is a very useful item. I was wondering though. A few months ago I made the suggestion (on a ticket) to use hardlinks for importing/copying books into calibre if they are on the same partition. I was told this isn't possible because of the database format of calibre or something with streams. I don't recall exactly and didn't understand it then anyway. So, if there can be hardlink copies within the calibre library like in 0.9.4 why not from outside for the import? Am I seeing something wrong? I still think this would be very useful. First for the speed-up reason. And then you could keep old library structures without wasting space. And this would put an end to the recurring discussion and wishes of changing the calibre library format to accommodate preferences to a different storage way without compromising any of the design decisions for calibre.