On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > As I write this, I am beginning to realize that maybe only > hard links in the same directory structure will reference the > same inode and that hard links spanning multiple directory trees > can be different but contain metadata that copy the map of the > original file which was the one that was on inode 16.
Two (or more) hardlinks to the same file can only exist within a file system. If /a and /b are separate file systems, then it is completely impossible for /a/file and /b/file to be hardlinks to each other.
