Comment 38 for bug 691590

The key SRU user impact justification I wanted I found in Soren's comment 27 - thank you.

Can I request that both the "filesystem supporting xattr" and "no filesystem xattr support" cases be verified for expected behaviour please?

Since we're changing behaviour I'm also concerned that this is high risk of regression for some use case we haven't considered where the previous behaviour is being depended upon. Thoughts on how to mitigate this would be appreciated. I appreciate that Christian has already come up with and tested a variety of use cases here - how comprehensive do you think these are when compared to "weird" things users might be doing?