Are NTFS permissions/ACLS supported in libguestfs?

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Issue

  • When trying to mount VMDK snapshot images trough guestmount, the permissions are not kept on the files.
# guestmount -a image-flat.vmdk -i -m /dev/sda3:/:acl,user_xattr:ntfs --ro /mnt/vmdk
# cd /mnt/vmdk/
# ll
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Aug 22  2012 folder1
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 21  2012 Logs
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 May 29  2013 PerfLogs
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 May 23  2013 $RECYCLE.BIN
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Feb 22  2012 System Volume Information
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jun 24 12:38 TestPerms
  • getfacl shows no permissions:
  # getfacl TestPerms/
# file: TestPerms/
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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