Re: bsdtar/libarchive change behaviour 9->10

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote:
> Libarchive 3.x can treat them as extended metadata.
> As a result, bsdtar doesn't see them at all (except as
> additional metadata which can't be restored on FreeBSD).

Are there other such examples?

> If you are using libarchive directly, you can ask it
> to not interpret those files as metadata.  Bsdtar does
> request such handling from libarchive.

Perhaps this could be exposed to the UI as a env var or a flag?

-- 
Eitan Adler
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