fix: avoid duplicate capacity reservation for hardlinks

2026-07-24 13:48:24 +00:00
parent 589fd4a41d
commit 748ca49837
8 changed files with 95 additions and 14 deletions
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ and placement policy differ.
  external state rather than being downloaded or silently deselected.
 - Confirm free space/reserve, permissions, sparse capability, supported
  partfile format, route health, and negotiated protocol features.
+- Charge payload bytes against free space only when the specific source and
+  destination files cannot be hardlinked. Same-filesystem hardlink stages and
+  merges retain the configured reserve plus small metadata artifacts, rather
+  than reserving a duplicate logical payload.
 - Export the source `.torrent` metainfo.
 - Persist the exact source, target baseline, requested selection, and delta.