diff --git a/borg/archive.py b/borg/archive.py
index 0626acb04..710b52fb8 100644
--- a/borg/archive.py
+++ b/borg/archive.py
@@ -25,14 +25,13 @@ from .helpers import Chunk, Error, uid2user, user2uid, gid2group, group2gid, \
     CompressionDecider1, CompressionDecider2, CompressionSpec, \
     IntegrityError
 from .repository import Repository
-from .platform import acl_get, acl_set
+from .platform import acl_get, acl_set, set_flags, get_flags
 from .chunker import Chunker
 from .hashindex import ChunkIndex, ChunkIndexEntry
 from .cache import ChunkListEntry
 import msgpack
 
 has_lchmod = hasattr(os, 'lchmod')
-has_lchflags = hasattr(os, 'lchflags')
 
 flags_normal = os.O_RDONLY | getattr(os, 'O_BINARY', 0)
 flags_noatime = flags_normal | getattr(os, 'O_NOATIME', 0)
@@ -435,10 +434,9 @@ Number of files: {0.stats.nfiles}'''.format(
         else:
             os.utime(path, None, ns=(atime, mtime), follow_symlinks=False)
         acl_set(path, item, self.numeric_owner)
-        # Only available on OS X and FreeBSD
-        if has_lchflags and b'bsdflags' in item:
+        if b'bsdflags' in item:
             try:
-                os.lchflags(path, item[b'bsdflags'])
+                set_flags(path, item[b'bsdflags'], fd=fd)
             except OSError:
                 pass
         # chown removes Linux capabilities, so set the extended attributes at the end, after chown, since they include
@@ -506,8 +504,9 @@ Number of files: {0.stats.nfiles}'''.format(
         xattrs = xattr.get_all(path, follow_symlinks=False)
         if xattrs:
             item[b'xattrs'] = StableDict(xattrs)
-        if has_lchflags and st.st_flags:
-            item[b'bsdflags'] = st.st_flags
+        bsdflags = get_flags(path, st)
+        if bsdflags:
+            item[b'bsdflags'] = bsdflags
         acl_get(path, item, st, self.numeric_owner)
         return item
 
diff --git a/borg/archiver.py b/borg/archiver.py
index 8c9d018db..bd45da2ba 100644
--- a/borg/archiver.py
+++ b/borg/archiver.py
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ from .archive import Archive, ArchiveChecker, ArchiveRecreater
 from .remote import RepositoryServer, RemoteRepository, cache_if_remote
 from .selftest import selftest
 from .hashindex import ChunkIndexEntry
-
-has_lchflags = hasattr(os, 'lchflags')
+from .platform import get_flags
 
 
 def argument(args, str_or_bool):
@@ -316,7 +315,7 @@ class Archiver:
             return
         status = None
         # Ignore if nodump flag is set
-        if has_lchflags and (st.st_flags & stat.UF_NODUMP):
+        if get_flags(path, st) & stat.UF_NODUMP:
             return
         if stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode) or read_special and not stat.S_ISDIR(st.st_mode):
             if not dry_run:
diff --git a/borg/helpers.py b/borg/helpers.py
index c73553e94..7e783f3eb 100644
--- a/borg/helpers.py
+++ b/borg/helpers.py
@@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ class ItemFormatter:
         'NUL': 'NUL character for creating print0 / xargs -0 like ouput, see bpath',
     }
     KEY_GROUPS = (
-        ('type', 'mode', 'uid', 'gid', 'user', 'group', 'path', 'bpath', 'source', 'linktarget'),
+        ('type', 'mode', 'uid', 'gid', 'user', 'group', 'path', 'bpath', 'source', 'linktarget', 'flags'),
         ('size', 'csize', 'num_chunks', 'unique_chunks'),
         ('mtime', 'ctime', 'atime', 'isomtime', 'isoctime', 'isoatime'),
         tuple(sorted(hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed)),
@@ -1259,6 +1259,7 @@ class ItemFormatter:
         item_data['source'] = source
         item_data['linktarget'] = source
         item_data['extra'] = extra
+        item_data['flags'] = item.get(b'bsdflags')
         for key in self.used_call_keys:
             item_data[key] = self.call_keys[key](item)
         return item_data
diff --git a/borg/platform.py b/borg/platform.py
index 9c1c4ebed..e57c08707 100644
--- a/borg/platform.py
+++ b/borg/platform.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import sys
 
-from .platform_base import acl_get, acl_set, SyncFile, sync_dir, API_VERSION
+from .platform_base import acl_get, acl_set, SyncFile, sync_dir, set_flags, get_flags, API_VERSION
 
 if sys.platform.startswith('linux'):  # pragma: linux only
-    from .platform_linux import acl_get, acl_set, SyncFile, API_VERSION
+    from .platform_linux import acl_get, acl_set, SyncFile, set_flags, get_flags, API_VERSION
 elif sys.platform.startswith('freebsd'):  # pragma: freebsd only
     from .platform_freebsd import acl_get, acl_set, API_VERSION
 elif sys.platform == 'darwin':  # pragma: darwin only
diff --git a/borg/platform_base.py b/borg/platform_base.py
index a897f9f10..675b5af9e 100644
--- a/borg/platform_base.py
+++ b/borg/platform_base.py
@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ def acl_set(path, item, numeric_owner=False):
     of the user/group names
     """
 
+try:
+    from os import lchflags
+
+    def set_flags(path, bsd_flags, fd=None):
+        lchflags(path, bsd_flags)
+except ImportError:
+    def set_flags(path, bsd_flags, fd=None):
+        pass
+
+
+def get_flags(path, st):
+    """Return BSD-style file flags for path or stat without following symlinks."""
+    return getattr(st, 'st_flags', 0)
+
 
 def sync_dir(path):
     fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY)
diff --git a/borg/platform_linux.pyx b/borg/platform_linux.pyx
index 854904f3f..8eb2b56d9 100644
--- a/borg/platform_linux.pyx
+++ b/borg/platform_linux.pyx
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import os
 import re
 import resource
-from stat import S_ISLNK
+import stat
+
 from .helpers import posix_acl_use_stored_uid_gid, user2uid, group2gid, safe_decode, safe_encode
 from .platform_base import SyncFile as BaseSyncFile
 from libc cimport errno
@@ -33,10 +34,72 @@ cdef extern from "fcntl.h":
     unsigned int SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE
     unsigned int SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER
 
+cdef extern from "linux/fs.h":
+    # ioctls
+    int FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
+    int FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
+
+    # inode flags
+    int FS_NODUMP_FL
+    int FS_IMMUTABLE_FL
+    int FS_APPEND_FL
+    int FS_COMPR_FL
+
+cdef extern from "stropts.h":
+    int ioctl(int fildes, int request, ...)
+
+cdef extern from "errno.h":
+    int errno
+
+cdef extern from "string.h":
+    char *strerror(int errnum)
 
 _comment_re = re.compile(' *#.*', re.M)
 
 
+BSD_TO_LINUX_FLAGS = {
+    stat.UF_NODUMP: FS_NODUMP_FL,
+    stat.UF_IMMUTABLE: FS_IMMUTABLE_FL,
+    stat.UF_APPEND: FS_APPEND_FL,
+    stat.UF_COMPRESSED: FS_COMPR_FL,
+}
+
+
+def set_flags(path, bsd_flags, fd=None):
+    if fd is None and stat.S_ISLNK(os.lstat(path).st_mode):
+        return
+    cdef int flags = 0
+    for bsd_flag, linux_flag in BSD_TO_LINUX_FLAGS.items():
+        if bsd_flags & bsd_flag:
+            flags |= linux_flag
+    open_fd = fd is None
+    if open_fd:
+        fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY|os.O_NONBLOCK|os.O_NOFOLLOW)
+    try:
+        if ioctl(fd, FS_IOC_SETFLAGS, &flags) == -1:
+            raise OSError(errno, strerror(errno).decode(), path)
+    finally:
+        if open_fd:
+            os.close(fd)
+
+
+def get_flags(path, st):
+    if stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode):
+        return 0
+    cdef int linux_flags
+    fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY|os.O_NONBLOCK|os.O_NOFOLLOW)
+    try:
+        if ioctl(fd, FS_IOC_GETFLAGS, &linux_flags) == -1:
+            return 0
+    finally:
+        os.close(fd)
+    bsd_flags = 0
+    for bsd_flag, linux_flag in BSD_TO_LINUX_FLAGS.items():
+        if linux_flags & linux_flag:
+            bsd_flags |= bsd_flag
+    return bsd_flags
+
+
 def acl_use_local_uid_gid(acl):
     """Replace the user/group field with the local uid/gid if possible
     """
@@ -93,7 +156,7 @@ def acl_get(path, item, st, numeric_owner=False):
     cdef char *access_text = NULL
 
     p = <bytes>os.fsencode(path)
-    if S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) or acl_extended_file(p) <= 0:
+    if stat.S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) or acl_extended_file(p) <= 0:
         return
     if numeric_owner:
         converter = acl_numeric_ids
diff --git a/borg/testsuite/__init__.py b/borg/testsuite/__init__.py
index cccf97a82..50d005397 100644
--- a/borg/testsuite/__init__.py
+++ b/borg/testsuite/__init__.py
@@ -5,9 +5,13 @@ import posix
 import stat
 import sys
 import sysconfig
+import tempfile
 import time
 import unittest
+
 from ..xattr import get_all
+from ..platform import get_flags
+from .. import platform
 
 # Note: this is used by borg.selftest, do not use or import py.test functionality here.
 
@@ -23,8 +27,20 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     raises = None
 
-has_lchflags = hasattr(os, 'lchflags')
+has_lchflags = hasattr(os, 'lchflags') or sys.platform.startswith('linux')
+no_lchlfags_because = '' if has_lchflags else '(not supported on this platform)'
+try:
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as file:
+        platform.set_flags(file.name, stat.UF_NODUMP)
+except OSError:
+    has_lchflags = False
+    no_lchlfags_because = '(the file system at %s does not support flags)' % tempfile.gettempdir()
 
+try:
+    import llfuse
+    has_llfuse = True or llfuse  # avoids "unused import"
+except ImportError:
+    has_llfuse = False
 
 # The mtime get/set precision varies on different OS and Python versions
 if 'HAVE_FUTIMENS' in getattr(posix, '_have_functions', []):
@@ -75,13 +91,13 @@ class BaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             # Assume path2 is on FUSE if st_dev is different
             fuse = s1.st_dev != s2.st_dev
             attrs = ['st_mode', 'st_uid', 'st_gid', 'st_rdev']
-            if has_lchflags:
-                attrs.append('st_flags')
             if not fuse or not os.path.isdir(path1):
                 # dir nlink is always 1 on our fuse filesystem
                 attrs.append('st_nlink')
             d1 = [filename] + [getattr(s1, a) for a in attrs]
             d2 = [filename] + [getattr(s2, a) for a in attrs]
+            d1.append(get_flags(path1, s1))
+            d2.append(get_flags(path2, s2))
             # ignore st_rdev if file is not a block/char device, fixes #203
             if not stat.S_ISCHR(d1[1]) and not stat.S_ISBLK(d1[1]):
                 d1[4] = None
diff --git a/borg/testsuite/archiver.py b/borg/testsuite/archiver.py
index 363cc19e5..75ee0c04f 100644
--- a/borg/testsuite/archiver.py
+++ b/borg/testsuite/archiver.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from hashlib import sha256
 
 import pytest
 
-from .. import xattr, helpers
+from .. import xattr, helpers, platform
 from ..archive import Archive, ChunkBuffer, ArchiveRecreater
 from ..archiver import Archiver
 from ..cache import Cache
@@ -26,15 +26,13 @@ from ..helpers import Chunk, Manifest, EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_WARNING, EXIT_ERROR, b
 from ..key import KeyfileKeyBase
 from ..remote import RemoteRepository, PathNotAllowed
 from ..repository import Repository
+from . import has_lchflags, has_llfuse
 from . import BaseTestCase, changedir, environment_variable
 
 try:
     import llfuse
-    has_llfuse = True or llfuse  # avoids "unused import"
 except ImportError:
-    has_llfuse = False
-
-has_lchflags = hasattr(os, 'lchflags')
+    pass
 
 src_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
 
@@ -280,7 +278,7 @@ class ArchiverTestCaseBase(BaseTestCase):
         # FIFO node
         os.mkfifo(os.path.join(self.input_path, 'fifo1'))
         if has_lchflags:
-            os.lchflags(os.path.join(self.input_path, 'flagfile'), stat.UF_NODUMP)
+            platform.set_flags(os.path.join(self.input_path, 'flagfile'), stat.UF_NODUMP)
         try:
             # Block device
             os.mknod('input/bdev', 0o600 | stat.S_IFBLK, os.makedev(10, 20))
diff --git a/borg/testsuite/conftest.py b/borg/testsuite/conftest.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c350fb7f..000000000
--- a/borg/testsuite/conftest.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-from ..logger import setup_logging
-
-# Ensure that the loggers exist for all tests
-setup_logging()
diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44ff5cde9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+from borg.logger import setup_logging
+
+# Ensure that the loggers exist for all tests
+setup_logging()
+
+from borg.testsuite import has_lchflags, no_lchlfags_because, has_llfuse
+from borg.testsuite.platform import fakeroot_detected
+from borg import xattr
+
+
+def pytest_report_header(config, startdir):
+    yesno = ['no', 'yes']
+    flags = 'Testing BSD-style flags: %s %s' % (yesno[has_lchflags], no_lchlfags_because)
+    fakeroot = 'fakeroot: %s (>=1.20.2: %s)' % (
+        yesno[fakeroot_detected()],
+        yesno[xattr.XATTR_FAKEROOT])
+    llfuse = 'Testing fuse: %s' % yesno[has_llfuse]
+    return '\n'.join((flags, llfuse, fakeroot))