STOP DOING HARDLINKS
INODES WERE NOT MEANT TO EXIST IN MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES
YEARS OF FILES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for being in more than one directory
Wanted to reference files from more than one directory anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called "SYMLINKS"
"Yes please give me FIFTEEN paths that this file resolves to" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
"Hello I would like different permissions on this file based on path" They have played us for absolute fools