I think we are slightly cross purposes.
Your use case is valid and works as expected. I was just pointing out
that there exist some minor use cases where you want hardlinks *within*
a vserver to stay as hardlinks even if any one link is edited (ie no
autobreaking), whilst having autolink breaking *across* vservers.
Something like selective hardlink breaking.
Anyway, I think it's a fairly minor usecase so I will drop talking about
it now!
Cheers
Ed W