Enhancement: (alpha) Store deviceID only for hardlinks Set `RESTIC_FEATURES=device-id-for-hardlinks` to enable this alpha feature. The feature flag will be removed after repository format version 3 becomes available or be replaced with a different solution. When creating backups from a filesystem snapshot, for example created using btrfs subvolumes, the deviceID of the filesystem changes compared to previous snapshots. This prevented restic from deduplicating the directory metadata of a snapshot. When this alpha feature is enabled, then the deviceID is only stored for hardlinks. This significantly reduces the metadata duplication for most backups. https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4006