Fact is, there is no point in ever using directory hard links (junctions), is there ?
Considering the way they are handled by explorer, that is.
My point, using an example : one cannot hope to alleviate disk 'C' from its physical payload (moving appdata folders or program files to another disk 'E' and using hardlinks to repopulate 'C', thus keeping apps working). Windows explorer will still accumulate those links "sizes" to the -presumably- consumed space on 'C', throwing warnings at its user's face as soon as disk 'C' lacks free space, even if it relates to hardlinks "virtual" space consumption.
So, Windows 7's hard links ? Big disappointment.
1The number you see, "6,905,039" has nothing to do with how many bytes of space anything takes up. It's the size of the linked file if you were to read it, regardless of how many bytes it actually takes up on disk. So all that your output shows is that each of the two links point to a file that would read as that number of bytes. – David Schwartz – 2012-04-17T06:47:16.410