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I wanted to start playing with docker last night but couldn't get it working. I would run the simple command docker pull base and it would take its time to download 98M of data. Then it would complain with several lines of ./usr/blah/foobar bsdtar: Failed to set file flags. If I would try it again, the download would start over from the beginning, not even resume or discover that it had already finished earlier.

What would I need to do to get this working?

My root filesystem was a btrfs filesystem. Could this be causing the problem?

If someone could tell me why btrfs was a problem, that would be a better answer than just fixing the problem.

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Turns out btrfs was causing the problem. I moved my root over to an ext4 filesystem, and now docker pull base works just fine and docker run -i -t base /bin/bash gives me a nice command prompt.

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They seem to be aware of the problem. twitter.com/getdocker/status/327105726659039233
getting the same errors when installing Arch linux rootfs on an SDcard for a raspberry pi. Also from bsdtar.
Is that rootfs also using btrfs?

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