Is it possible for Ext4 file systems (or maybe another one understood by Linux) to assign different metadata (like modification time, owner, access rights) to several hard-links that refer to the same data.  (I know that for the size this is impossible, of course).Rationale: I want to create a simple de-duplicated archive.  It can (and often will) happen, that files contain precisely the same data, but the metadata differ.My idea was to create a hard-link per file and then set the metadata accordingly. But changing one hard-link seems to also change the others. (Or maybe there's another solution to my problem?)
Several hard-links with different metadata in Linux using Ext4
linux;filesystems;hard link