When considering the use of hard links, what are valid reasons not to use hard links?

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Hard links are not available on all Linux systems because traditional filesystems, such as ext4, do not support them

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Each hard link has individual ownership, permissions and ACLs which can lead to unintended disclosure of file content

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Hard links are specific to one filesystem and cannot point to files on another filesystem

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If users other than root should be able to create hard links, suln has to be installed and configured

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When a hard linked file is changed, a copy of the file is created and consumes additional space

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