Duplicate recognition marks hardlinks as duplicates

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I have searched the existing issues, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate report.

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The bug

Hardlinks should not be marked as duplicates or there should at least be an option to intentionally exclude them from duplicate recognition, because they do not need storage capacity and are good habits of having copies of the same file in multiple locations (e.g. best picture folder of your holiday images).

The OS that Immich Server is running on

Debian

Version of Immich Server

v2.7.5

Version of Immich Mobile App

v2.7.5

Platform with the issue

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

Device make and model

No response

Your docker-compose.yml content

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Your .env content

TZ=Europe/Berlin
IMMICH_VERSION=release
NODE_ENV=production
IMMICH_ALLOW_SETUP=true

## Change to 'false' to disable CSP
IMMICH_HELMET_FILE=true

DB_HOSTNAME=127.0.0.1
DB_USERNAME=***
DB_PASSWORD=***
DB_DATABASE_NAME=***
DB_VECTOR_EXTENSION=vectorchord

REDIS_HOSTNAME=127.0.0.1
IMMICH_MACHINE_LEARNING_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3003
MACHINE_LEARNING_CACHE_FOLDER=/opt/immich/cache
## - For OpenVINO only - uncomment below to increase
## - inference speed while reducing accuracy
## - Default is FP32
# MACHINE_LEARNING_OPENVINO_PRECISION=FP16

IMMICH_MEDIA_LOCATION=/opt/immich/upload

Reproduction steps

Using external libraries:

1. Create a hardlink of a file in an external library
2. Syncronize the external library
3. Check duplicate recognition tool -> hard link was detected as duplicate

Relevant log output

Additional information

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