[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] preserve xattrs in images

[Burton, Ross]

Hi Patrick,

On 11 August 2015 at 09:44, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at 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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