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Regular attributes. Extended attributes have been deprecated by Microsoft quite some time ago in favour of ADS. It's not hard to add support for replicating th
by apankrat 7y ago
Regular attributes.
Extended attributes have been deprecated by Microsoft quite some time ago in favour of ADS. It's not hard to add support for replicating them, but there's literally no demand for that.
- mehrdadn 7y agoNot sure where you got that idea (link?) but EAs are used in WSL, among other things. Meaning you won't be able to copy WSL file systems properly right now. As a general rule, you should avoid any information loss regardless of anyone's opinion on the matter. No one is going to think "ah well, Microsoft/etc. doesn't like this feature so it's ok my backup is messed up".
- apankrat 7y agoI don't have a link ready, but this was explicitly mentioned in one of TechNet articles on the subject dating back few years. EA being used for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) - not much of a surprise, really. It is a square peg in a round hole in many aspects. As I said, there's zero demand for replicating EA, WSL or not.
- mehrdadn 7y agoI think you'll find you're making a mistake, but up to you...