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Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders store... by lxgr on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:34PM (#31007269)
This is a concern of presentation, not the backing implementation: How to present (approximately) hardlinked files to users, with the possible complications of varying support for hard and soft links or other mechanisms across the various client implementations of Google Drive.

There's advantages and disadvantages to using either.

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Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders store... by sangeeth96 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:38PM (#31007317)
I see. I don't use Drive via the web/app interfaces much but essentially, hard links are a thing already and users must've inadvertently created them anyway when doing actions via web/app.

Any idea if these hard links can be created with Drive clients on Mac/Win?

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Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders store... by deepl_derber on Thursday April 21, 2022 @08:10PM (#31116731)
They can't. The data model in Drive will no longer support hardlinking, period.
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