<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Patrick,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 August 2015 at 09:44, Patrick Ohly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.ohly@intel.com" target="_blank">patrick.ohly@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":368" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">The default does not get changed because supporting xattrs causes a<br>
certain overhead (need to build GNU tar, additional system calls when<br>
creating the images).</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Two questions:</div><div class="gmail_extra">1) Do enough host distributions not enable xattrs in tar that we need to depend on tar-replacement-native?<br>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).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>