Photos copies photos when importing even when told not to copy photos when importing?

The new Photos app is pretty cool.
The one thing I didn't like about iPhotos is still present here:  Rather than handling my photos in the Finder it creates a weird database full of all the photos -- and the only way to get to them is via this one app.  I guess maybe we'll have a solution for that in the future.
But I have stumbled across something that may be a deal breaker for me:  Even when set to not COPY imported photos, it turns out the Photos copies imported photos.
In preferences:  GENERAL -> IMPORTING you can choose whether to Copy Items To The Photo Library.
Well, I don't want to do that.  I have 8G of photos on my drive, and relatively little space, and the last thing I need to do is use double the space!  So I chose not to copy items when importing.
I come back a couple hours later.  And guess what?  My Photos app/library is 8G in size!  Photos has copied all my photos when importing.   So now I have two copies of all my photos on my hard drive, and I am running out of space.
Is there a way to make that setting, to not copy photos when importing, work?

Hi,
Thanks for the idea.  Here is what I found:
The "Masters" folder is very small.  300MB.
The "Previews" folder is a similar size.
"Thumbnails" are under 1G.
It's the "Resources" folder that is many gigs in size.
Very interesting.  So in a sense, it could be even worse! 
That is, apparently the setting prevented the "Masters" folder from getting 8 gig of photos copied into it. 
But even so, "Resources" ended up with 6.5G in it -- even though no files were copied!
Wild. 
Other photo management apps (e.g., Lightroom) have sort of a 10% overhead, not a 90% overhead -- i.e., close to the same size as the actual photos themselves.
I should probably start a fresh question, now that you have solved half the mystery:  Yes, the actual photos were not imported into Masters, but Resources gets really big!

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