diff --git a/src/main/java/org/cryptomator/frontend/fuse/mount/WinFspMountProvider.java b/src/main/java/org/cryptomator/frontend/fuse/mount/WinFspMountProvider.java
index 16824f4..666917a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/cryptomator/frontend/fuse/mount/WinFspMountProvider.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/cryptomator/frontend/fuse/mount/WinFspMountProvider.java
@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ public Mount mount() throws MountFailedException {
 			var builder = Fuse.builder();
 			var libPath = WinfspUtil.getWinFspInstallDir() + "bin\\" + (OS_ARCH.contains("aarch64") ? "winfsp-a64.dll" : "winfsp-x64.dll");
 			builder.setLibraryPath(libPath);
-			var fuseAdapter = ReadWriteAdapter.create(builder.errno(), vfsRoot, FuseNioAdapter.DEFAULT_MAX_FILENAMELENGTH, FileNameTranscoder.transcoder(), true);
+			//xattr disabled due to https://github.com/cryptomator/fuse-nio-adapter/issues/86
+			var fuseAdapter = ReadWriteAdapter.create(builder.errno(), vfsRoot, FuseNioAdapter.DEFAULT_MAX_FILENAMELENGTH, FileNameTranscoder.transcoder(), false);
 			try {
 				var fuse = builder.build(fuseAdapter);
 				fuse.mount("fuse-nio-adapter", mountPoint, combinedMountFlags().toArray(String[]::new));