Metadata Xfer Not Supported !!top!! Guide

Private trackers often set a "private" flag on torrents. To maintain security, some clients are programmed not to send metadata for these torrents via DHT (Distributed Hash Table) or PEX (Peer Exchange), leading to the "not supported" status.

cp -r --no-preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps /source/ /destination/ metadata xfer not supported

FAT32 and exFAT have no native concept of Unix permissions or extended attributes. A well-intentioned backup script using cp -a or tar —acls will fail spectacularly. The first time the OS tries to write a POSIX ACL, the FAT driver returns EOPNOTSUPP , and the user sees this error. Private trackers often set a "private" flag on torrents

Now downstream processes can read orig-mtime and restore it if required. the FAT driver returns EOPNOTSUPP