'Return true or false to indicate similarity in the hardlink sense.'

def _same_common(self, other):

    return ((self.uid == other.uid) and (self.gid == other.gid) and (self.rdev == other.rdev) and (self.mtime == other.mtime) and (self.ctime == other.ctime) and (self.user == other.user) and (self.group == other.group))
