Consider using hardlink instead of cow for preparing `~/.lima/<INSTANCE>/basedisk` from the downloader cache
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Description
As the `basedisk` remains immutable, it could be just hardlinked from the downloader cache (when the cache exists on the same filesystem).
This may make the situation complicated though, if we want to support squashing the `diffdisk` to `basedisk` in future.
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