An error is returned "Invalid argument" when running setfacl against a GFS2 filesystem when there are more than 25 entries on RHEL 6

Solution Verified - Updated 2015-05-06T14:57:07+00:00 -

Issue

What is the maximum number of ACL entries per inodes on a GFS2 filesystem?
An error is returned Invalid argument when running setfacl against a GFS2 filesystem when there are more than 25 entries.

# /usr/bin/setfacl -bR --set group::r-x,group:ftp:rwx,.....,user:jane:rwx /gfs2fs/file42
setfacl: /gfs2fs/file42: Invalid argument

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)

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