rsync - Nov 2011 - AIX + ACLs - Unsupported attribute value (124)

Group,

        I'm having trouble convincing rsync to read and apply ACLs to 
files as root or otherwise. Googling, reading the source and docs have not 
helped so far. I always seem to get the error message 
sys_acl_get_tag_type(): Unsupported attribute value (124).

        Our rsync version is fairly recent, I'm using a jfs2 filesystem, 
and I'm using a very simple test case (see below). The ACL in question 
seems pretty standard and simple.

        What does unsupported attribute value mean? How can I get it 
supported? Anyone have any ideas on how to convince rsync to save and 
apply the acls to the destination?

$ /opt/freeware/bin/rsync -Aa /tmp/rtest/a/ /tmp/rtest/b/
rsync: change_sacl_perms: sys_acl_get_tag_type(): Unsupported attribute 
value (124)

$ /opt/freeware/bin/rsync --version
rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 32-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, no xattrs, no iconv, no symtimes


/tmp/rtest$ aclget ./a/file
*
* ACL_type   AIXC
*
attributes:
base permissions
    owner(ebambach):  rw-
    group(staff):  r--
    others:  r--
extended permissions
    enabled
    permit   rwx     u:myuser
/tmp/rtest$ aclget ./b/file
*
* ACL_type   AIXC
*
attributes:
base permissions
    owner(ebambach):  rw-
    group(staff):  r--
    others:  r--
extended permissions
    disabled


/tmp/rtest$ find . -ls
49166    1 drwxr-xr-x  4 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 .
49167    1 drwxr-xr-x  2 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 ./a
49169    0 -rw-r--r--  1 ebambach   staff            0 Nov 10 16:11 
./a/file
49168    1 drwxr-xr-x  2 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 ./b
49170    0 -rw-r--r--  1 ebambach   staff            0 Nov 10 16:11 
./b/file

 
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