setfacl: xyz: Operation not supported -- plz help

[Maaz]

hello Dear Experts

kernel: 2.6.5-1.358
OS: Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)

there is a file /records.txt owned by me(root). I want to give a user name marshall read and w rite permissions on /records.txt. marshall doesnt belongs to the root's group.
I did as following
[root@crm1 /]setfacl -m user:marshall:rw records.txt

setfacl: records.txt: Operation not supported

why the above message? where and what i did wrong ? what shuold i do ?

Plz help.

Thanks in Advance

Regards
Maaz

[Ermin Borovac · Accepted solution]

Try the following before running setfacl

# mount -o remount,acl /

[Maaz]

Thanx a Million Dear Ermin Borovac.

Regards
Maaz

[K.C. Chan]

just wondering is the acl option available in redhat9 as well? Thanks.

[Maaz]

Dear K.C.Chan, i m using fc 2.

Regards
Maaz