[HARDLINK / SYMLINK] Can FileBot duplicate files without duplicating physical data on disk?

[spezticle]

Hey there everyone, i'm here as someone suggested i check out this wonderful piece of software.
I want to make sure that it can handle files like i need them to or you can help me find the info I'm looking for as a new way to think about structure.

I'm most concerned with torrents. i see that it supports rtorrent on linux. what exactly does that mean?
If I am seeding torrent file: my.show.torrent with a file structure of :

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my.show.s01.720p.x264\my.show.s01e01.720p.x264.mp4
my.show.s01.720p.x264\my.show.s01e02.720p.x264.mp4
my.show.s01.720p.x264\my.show.s01e03.720p.x264.mp4
my.show.s01.720p.x264\my.show.s01e04.720p.x264.mp4

and I rename those files, my torrent client will try to re-download them because the original filename is gone.
Can filebot coordinate with rtorrent to tell it there's a new file name or do i have to stop seeding for this to work?

[spezticle]

Well, i took a different approach. I just left the files seed where they are and renamed with symlink.
I think this is going to work out nicely.

[rednoah]

I recommend using hardlinks, as that will allow you to have the same file twice, with different file paths, but using the same physical disk space.

All my examples use --action duplicate which will hardlink if possible, so if you follow the examples, you might already do things the smart way.

hardlinks allow you to have the exact same file twice, or many times, without using extra disk space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link#Example

[spezticle]

Ah, trust me i'd love to use hardlinks but can't.
Real media lives on server in cloud. Access in via http (directory listing) and SSH/SCP.
Local plex server is a linux laptop that mounts a SSHFS path to the server. It's on this local plex server that i'm running filebot.
It works well. I might be able to use filebot to script creating hardlinks on the remote server. I can't run filebot on the remote, for sure.