I have different game directories for different versions of minecraft. To not having to add all servers again with each profile, I symlink a main servers.dat to the specific profile dirs. So far everything works fine. The game follows the symlink and reads the main servers.dat.

But when I add a new server and it tries to save the servers.dat, it doesn't respect the symlink and just overwrites it with a normal file. Instead of following the symlink and overwriting the shared servers.dat.