This happens on an NFS client running on: Linux ceramic32 3.14.4 #1 SMP Fri May 30 00:52:07 PDT 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (also happens on x86_64). The NFS server can be either 3.14 or 3.13, it doesn't change a thing. Mount options are: (from /proc/mtab) ceramic:/export/home/phil /home/phil nfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=172.17.1.2,mountvers=3,mountport=20048,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=172.17.1.2 0 0 (This is NFSv3) The symptom: Run getfacl on any NFS inode. See there are no ACLs: % getfacl . # file: . # owner: phil # group: phil user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x Yet, getfattr says there are some acl-related xattrs: % getfattr -m '.*' . # file: . system.posix_acl_access system.posix_acl_default But when you want to retrieve these phantom xattrs, I get errors: % getfattr -n system.posix_acl_access . .: system.posix_acl_access: No such attribute [1] 1136 exit 1 getfattr -n system.posix_acl_access . % getfattr -n system.posix_acl_default . .: system.posix_acl_default: No such attribute [1] 1146 exit 1 getfattr -n system.posix_acl_default . I've noticed because it breaks the patch utility. This is a regression from 3.13, probably due to the 3.14 NFS ACL overhaul. I'm ready & willing to try patches. Phil. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html