[usaar333]

Great point (found tons of resources here: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext...)

Still a lot of restrictions here that would make in Dropbox's shoes circa 2008 not attempt to support them:

1. Kernel driver requirement requires admin rights which hurts installing ability

2. General instability (looks like applications might not respect symlinks right -- e.g. deletes could recursively delete contents within the symlink)

3. Won't work with users running older NTFS or FAT32 (e.g. XP upgrades) -- not sure how common that was in 2008 though.