Does pnpm copy files?

[offizium-berndstorath]

I want to check if pnpm is doing its job

# /bin/ls -l node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/ts-node        
total 304
-rw-r--r--   1 berndstorath  staff   1103 May 23 10:42 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--   1 berndstorath  staff  48798 May 23 10:42 README.md
-rw-r--r--   1 berndstorath  staff    380 May 23 10:42 child-loader.mjs
drwxr-xr-x  67 berndstorath  staff   2144 May 23 10:44 dist
drwxr-xr-x  17 berndstorath  staff    544 May 23 10:44 dist-raw
drwxr-xr-x   3 berndstorath  staff     96 May 23 10:44 esm
-rw-r--r--   1 berndstorath  staff    308 May 23 10:42 esm.mjs
drwxr-xr-x   3 berndstorath  staff     96 May 23 10:44 node10
drwxr-xr-x   3 berndstorath  staff     96 May 23 10:44 node12
drwxr-xr-x   3 berndstorath  staff     96 May 23 10:44 node14
drwxr-xr-x   3 berndstorath  staff     96 May 23 10:44 node16
drwxr-xr-x   3 berndstorath  staff     96 May 23 10:44 node_modules
-rw-r--r--   1 berndstorath  staff   6077 May 23 10:42 package.json
drwxr-xr-x   6 berndstorath  staff    192 May 23 10:44 register
drwxr-xr-x   4 berndstorath  staff    128 May 23 10:44 transpilers
-rw-r--r--   1 berndstorath  staff  10581 May 23 10:42 tsconfig.schema.json
-rw-r--r--   1 berndstorath  staff  72100 May 23 10:42 tsconfig.schemastore-schema.json

The second column should show the amount of references. If its >1 than its a hardlink or a hardlink points to it. This is my understanding. But it shows a value of 1. Is this correct?

# gstat node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/ts-node/package.json 
  File: node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/ts-node/package.json
  Size: 6077            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 1,15    Inode: 32112968    Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (  502/berndstorath)   Gid: (   20/   staff)
Access: 2024-05-23 10:43:12.507647360 +0200
Modify: 2024-05-23 10:42:53.034144663 +0200
Change: 2024-05-23 10:44:05.536082103 +0200
 Birth: 2024-05-23 10:42:53.034061162 +0200

stats also shows its a regular file with only 1 link.

I am using macos and pnpm uses apfs cloning. is there a way to check this?