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ygra
on Sept 12, 2014
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My experience with using cp to copy 432 million fi...
Is that really a feature the file system provides? Or does that command simply walk the MFT and finds all hardlinks to the same file record?
As far as I know NTFS does not store what hard links point to a file.
asveikau
on Sept 12, 2014
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I don't know. I do know there are tens of thousands of hardlinked files under system32, and the command I listed above can enumerate links pretty quickly.
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As far as I know NTFS does not store what hard links point to a file.