VAST Cluster supports creating and managing hardlinks on SMB shares exposed by the VAST cluster. You can perform basic operations with the hardlinked files, such as read, write, copy, move, overwrite, unlink, delete, and set ACLs. Nested hardlinks (hardlink to a hardlink or a softlink) are also supported.
The following limitations apply:
Creating a hardlink to another SMB-enabled view is not allowed.
Creating hardlinks to directories is not allowed. An attempt to link a directory returns a STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY error.
Linking an Alternate Data Stream (ADS) is not supported and returns a STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER error.
Creating a hardlink on a Global Access satellite cluster is not supported and returns a STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED error.
Creating a hardlink, on the Global Access origin cluster, of a file that has already been opened from a satellite cluster, is not allowed and returns STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR.
By default, both creating and opening of SMB hardlinks are enabled on the cluster. If you want to configure the cluster so that it does not allow creating and/or opening SMB hardlinks, contact VAST Support.