Suggestion: a new option '--no-objids' can be added

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XiaoHongMao
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Suggestion: a new option '--no-objids' can be added

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I am quite familiar with the structure of NTFS file system, and I found that a feature of the NTFS file system, which is called object ID, is useless under most circumstances, and is also difficult and troublesome to eliminate. To delete the object ID of a file, one must type and run 'fsutil objectid delete <filename>' via cmd.exe on Windows, which is quite slow when batch processing is required. Furthermore, this method can only be used to delete the object ID of a file, not to delete that of a folder. In other words, we cannot detete the object ID of a folder anyway!

Therefore, I suggest that on Windows, just like the existing option '--no-acls' for avoiding capturing or restoring security descriptors of files and folders, a new option '--no-objids' can be added to wimcapture, wimappend, wimapply and wimextract in the new version of wimlib-imagex for avoiding capturing or restoring object IDs of files and folders.

Your attention to my suggestion is appreciated!
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