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This might allow us to work around some of the nasty issues/hacks that we pull with new.

In nearly all cases EAT metadata (xattrs or ads) should already have been placed on the inode we are about to write if it exists at all, and we check for that. However there are edge cases where meta can be erased during _write_chunks (which is why write chunks exists). When this happened we would try to write meta, but it would fail because there was no setter defined. I'm pretty sure that a setter should never be defined because cmeta = None will cause the same issue. I think that whole branch should likely be an error because it means that somehow we lost the metadata half way through the process, which should never have happened.

Manifests as an AttributError on Path.setxattrs, which leads to the question -- how the heck does anything at all work?!