umask, ACL inheritance and setgid +s not working with copy from flash drive in nautilus

[Bill Taylor]

On 09/14/2010 07:47 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Andy Graybeal wrote:
>    
>> Why when I copy a file from a jump/flash drive, does it not inherit
>> the ACL's properly?
>>      
>    
>> Is it because I copied it from a FAT file system?  My jump drive is
>> probably FAT16.
>>      
> While I'm not familiar with ACLs, I'm sure that FAT doesn't know
> anything about Linux permissions and therefore also not about ACLs.
>
> If you want to preserve Linux permissions, use tar to make an archive
> which keeps the Linux permissions. OTOH, I'm not so sure if tar can
> handle ACLs.
>
>
> Nils
>
>    
I googled and Istill wish I knew what an ACL is.