• hperrin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    On Linux file systems it basically is. A file name is just a label for an inode, and the same inode can have as many file names as you want.

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      7 months ago

      Still this requires different directories for the hardlinks to be in the filesystem, and there’s not an easy way given a file to list all “labels” that file has, without checking other directories for files with the same inode.