I personally think that hard links should go away. I have trouble thinking of any use for hard links that isn’t better served by CoW links. Hard links have qui

I personally think that hard links should go away. I have trouble thinking of any use for hard links that isn’t better served by CoW links. Hard links have quite surprising properties with respect to chmod, they are awkward to handle in archival tools, and even reliably identifying them is awkward to impossible in general.