Dear Andreas,
Thank you for explanation.
Translation of attributes make sense.
Warnings are only meaningful if it is theoretically possible to restore
metadata. Otherwise it's a noise. :)
Perhaps it's make sense to print exactly one warning in the beginning of
extraction if attributes can't be restored.
Millions of warnings per file are hardly useful.
Besides GNU tar restore archive to btrfs without any warnings.
I think "Failed to set flags" warning is highly confusing. (what flags?).
Without deep knowledge of file systems' internals it is hard to understand if
extraction is succeeded or if something goes wrong.
If there were any other warnings they are hard to notice due to amount of
"Failed to set flags" in the output.
I don't expect folders in /home to have any unusual attributes (i.e. all of
them are alike) and "user_xattr" mount option is not used (and probably never
was). From what I can see ownership, time and access flags are successfully
restored so I wonder what exactly was dropped? Can we also notify user about
the nature of metadata that can't be restored (if any)?
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Dmitry Smirnov
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