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hardlinks are paths pointing to the same inode - the same metadata, the same contents - they are the same file - just happen to have multiple addresses. Inodes
by braindeath 7y ago
hardlinks are paths pointing to the same inode - the same metadata, the same contents - they are the same file - just happen to have multiple addresses.
Inodes that happen to share blocks are not the same file. ie totally different.