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25One problem you may run into with hardlinks is if somebody decides to do something to one of their music files that you've hard-linked they could inadvertently be affecting other people's access to their music.Steven D– Steven D2010-10-13 02:48:56 +00:00Commented Oct 13, 2010 at 2:48
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4another problem is that two different files containing "Some Really Great Tune", even if taken from the same source with the same encoder will very likely not be bit-for-bit identical.msw– msw2010-10-13 02:57:12 +00:00Commented Oct 13, 2010 at 2:57
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4better sollution might be to have a public music folder...Stefan– Stefan2010-10-13 07:08:41 +00:00Commented Oct 13, 2010 at 7:08
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4related: superuser.com/questions/140819/ways-to-deduplicate-filesDavid Cary– David Cary2011-03-16 23:59:34 +00:00Commented Mar 16, 2011 at 23:59
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3@tante: Using symlinks solves no problem. When a user "deletes" a file, the number of links to it gets decremented, when the count reaches zero, the files gets really deleted, that's all. So deletion is no problem with hardlinked files, the only problem is a user trying to edit the file (unprobable indeed) or to overwrite it (quite possible if logged in).maaartinus– maaartinus2012-03-14 03:56:09 +00:00Commented Mar 14, 2012 at 3:56
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