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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="yarikoptic"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/f11e9c84cb18d26a1748c33b48c924b4"
+ subject="comment 10"
+ date="2021-08-27T01:38:54Z"
+ content="""
+ha -- I have mentioned that there is `--no-preserve` so I have tried it with -a to exclude xattr and it seems to do the trick as well
+
+```
+(datalad) [d31548v@discovery7 _test_]$ rm -f bar baz
+(datalad) [d31548v@discovery7 _test_]$ echo bar > bar
+(datalad) [d31548v@discovery7 _test_]$ chmod 444 bar
+(datalad) [d31548v@discovery7 _test_]$ cp --reflink=auto -a --no-preserve=xattr bar baz
+(datalad) [d31548v@discovery7 _test_]$ chmod 644 baz
+(datalad) [d31548v@discovery7 _test_]$ ls -l baz
+-rw-r--r-- 1 d31548v rc-DBIC-bids 4 Aug 26 21:36 baz
+```
+
+so may be just worth explicitly excluding xattr instead of explicitly including some of the others? ;)
+"""]]