It is not. if it were, they’d both contain the same files. they do not. so they’re not.

They’d also have the same directory path. They do not. Going to those two different paths gives you a different set of files.

I just scanned the files in both directories. the files in them are physically on different spots on the filesystem, at the cluster level.

They are not the same directory. I don’t know what to tell you.