[3.7] Force creating hard- and softlinks

[vrutkovs]

Cherry-pick of #8402 on 3.7 branch

Created https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1579321

[mtnbikenc]

/lgtm

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Test name	Commit	Details	Rerun command
ci/openshift-jenkins/gcp	ae19e99	link	/test gcp
ci/openshift-jenkins/install	ae19e99	link	/test install
ci/openshift-jenkins/logging	ae19e99	link	/test logging

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