Please add option to ignore changes in the number of hardlinks

This bug was originally reported by Danny Milosavljevic (dannym@scratchpost.org) in Debian bug #900102:

Would it be possible to add an option to ignore changes in the number of hardlinks?
Guix deduplication uses hardlinks - so we get a LOT of false positives now.

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