Can I create a link to an inode?

[Konstantin Svist]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 13:42 -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote:
>   
>> I think I read, somewhere, that in doing that I could end up
>> with garbage bytes at the end of the last block in the copy,
>> and would need to use the size from the original inode to
>> trim the copied file.  Don't know if that's fact or not.
>>     
>
> I can't imagine why that would be true. A file is a file is a file.
>   

The file doesn't occupy the entire last sector in most filesystems. 
Maybe that's what was meant originally as garbage bytes - the whole file 
is there, plus the (supposedly) empty remainder of the last sector.