Hi Patrick, On 11 August 2015 at 09:44, Patrick Ohly <patrick.o...@intel.com> wrote:
> The default does not get changed because supporting xattrs causes a > certain overhead (need to build GNU tar, additional system calls when > creating the images). > Two questions: 1) Do enough host distributions not enable xattrs in tar that we need to depend on tar-replacement-native? 2) Have you timed the overhead of enabling xattr archiving on an image that doesn't use xattrs? (subtext: does this need to be an option). Ross
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