This issue was created by revision r34.

Now that we support blank tile detection, it could be desirable to use soft links instead of hard links when linking from a tile to its blank image. This would be required for supporting linking on win platforms, or on a configuration basis on other platforms

The maximum number of links per file is incompatible with the use-case. use soft links but first investigate is this is really useful in terms of disk space: for a typical 256x256 tile, a blank image is around 1.3kB . if the creation of a symbolic link allocates a block on disk (usually at the minimum 4kB), then there is little use in using blank tile detection.

This issue was closed by revision r145.