Unable to apply ACL's to NFS share, receive error: "Failed setxattr operation: Read-only file system"
Issue
- When attempting to apply ACL's to files or directories on an NFS share, the following error occurs:
Failed setxattr operation: Read-only file system
An error occurred during recursive file tree walk.
- The NFS client is mounting the NFS share with the
rw
option.
Environment
- NFS client: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- NFS server: Third-party
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