On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:41:53 +0100
Steinar Midtskogen <stei...@latinitas.org> wrote:

> "James K. Lowden" <jklow...@schemamania.org> writes:
> 
> > See -o grpid in mount(8).  I think that's what you want.  
> 
> Thanks.  It works!

Hmm, I'm glad, but as David Woodhouse pointed out, it shouldn't have
been necessary.  Your question was: 

> On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:33:59 +0100
> Steinar Midtskogen <stei...@latinitas.org> wrote:
> 
> > is there a way to tell Linux to observe the setgid flag on a
> > directory (ext4)?

and -o grpid changes the directory's *gid* effect, not setgid.  Are you
sure that the directory is setgid?  

$ ls -ld steinar
drwxrwxr-x  2 jklowden  wheel  512 Oct 28 09:54 steinar
$ chmod 2775 steinar
$ ls -ld steinar
drwxrwsr-x  2 jklowden  wheel  512 Oct 28 09:55 steinar
             ^--- note "s" in permission bit

You may be more used to traditional BSD behavior, which -o grpid
restores.  

--jkl
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