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+Bugfix: Skip EA processing in Windows for volumes that do not support EA
+
+Restic was failing to backup files on some windows paths like network
+drives because of errors while fetching ExtendedAttributes.
+Either they return error codes like windows.E_NOT_SET or
+windows.ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION or it results in slower backups.
+Restic now completely skips the attempt to fetch Extended Attributes
+for such volumes where it is not supported.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4980