Comment 75 for bug 1048059

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Shane Pearson (bocephus) wrote : Re: [Bug 1048059] Re: Adding ACLs to /media/$user does not work

Martin,

I turned off wifi and I'm connected to the router with a network cable.
 Wifi has been slow since 11.10 :-/

The ip address is: 92.85.210.155

On 11/22/2012 10:12 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I'm logged into Jerre's box now, and this is what I can find out without
> root privileges:
>
> - I confirm that ACLs are broken:
>
> $ touch test.txt
> $ getfacl test.txt
> # file: test.txt
> # owner: mpitt
> # group: mpitt
> user::rw-
> group::rw-
> other::r--
> $ setfacl -m u:nv:r test.txt
> setfacl: test.txt: Operation not supported
>
> No special mount options for root file system:
> /dev/sda1 / ext2 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
>
> However, it is unusual to actually use ext2. Jerre mentioned that in an
> earlier comment.
>
> I can create a new ext2 partition here with working ACLs. Even when I do
>
> sudo tune2fs -E mount_opts="noacl" /dev/sdb
>
> on my local test partition, dumpe2fs doesn't change the default mount
> options, but has a new fiield "Mount options", which isn't being
> considered. That smells like another bug, but is not quite related to
> this change.
>
> Jerre is using the -lowlatency kernel, but as far as I can see, ACL
> support is enabled there for all relevant file systems (grep FS.*ACL
> /boot/config-3.5.0-18-lowlatency).
>
> For more experiments I need to be able to load scsi_debug and/or do loop
> mounts for further testing, and thus need sudo privileges.
>