ACL permission defaults are not applying to new files

Question

I am trying to set up ACL's so that all new sub-directories and files withing a directory automatically inherit it's parents permissions. From what I understand I could achieve this by setting the default permissions for all groups and users, this is what I did:

mkdir test 
chown root:media test
chmod 775 test
chmod g+s test (so all directories and files are in the same group)
setfacl -dm g::rwx test
getfacl test

Here is the output of the last command:

# file: test
# owner: dom
# group: media
# flags: -s-
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::r-x 
default:user::rwx
default:group::rwx
default:other::r-x

All seems correct but when I create files withing thest directory they do not have correct permissions.

cd test
mkdir dir
touch file
ls -l

Here are the results of the last command:

root@Server:/test# ls -l
total 4 
drwxrwsr-x+ 2 root media 4096 Oct 27 19:24 dir
-rw-rw-r--  1 root media    0 Oct 27 19:24 file

I am using Ubuntu Server 14.04 with on ext4 file system.

Ac you can see the directory has the correct permissions but the file is missing execute permissions. I have also tried this on another directory (/mnt/disk1) and the file was missing read permissions also. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

With no other answer I am adding my answer since the issue has been somewhat resolved.

Due to a three year old (!) cp/mv in coreutils don't respect the default ACL of parent directories bug the default ACL permission are non-functional and the reason acl's did not work for me.