diff --git a/tar/bsdtar.1 b/tar/bsdtar.1
index c4486a3..b60f09c 100644
--- a/tar/bsdtar.1
+++ b/tar/bsdtar.1
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd February 23, 2017
+.Dd February 24, 2017
 .Dt TAR 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -167,11 +167,14 @@
 restricted pax format and bzip2 compression.
 .It Fl Fl acls
 (c, r, u, x modes only)
-Archive or extract ACLs. This is the reverse of
+Archive or extract POSIX.1e or NFSv4 ACLs. This is the reverse of
 .Fl Fl no-acls
-and the default behavior in c, r, and u modes or if
+and the default behavior in c, r, and u modes (except Mac OS X) or if
 .Nm
-is run in x mode as root.
+is run in x mode as root. On Mac OS X this option translates extended ACLs
+to NFSv4 ACLs. To store extended ACLs the
+.Fl Fl mac-metadata
+option is preferred.
 .It Fl B , Fl Fl read-full-blocks
 Ignored for compatibility with other
 .Xr tar 1
@@ -359,7 +362,8 @@
 By default, the modification time is set to the time stored in the archive.
 .It Fl Fl mac-metadata
 (c, r, u and x mode only)
-Mac OS X specific. Archive or extract ACLs and extended attributes using
+Mac OS X specific. Archive or extract extended ACLs and extended attributes
+using
 .Xr copyfile 3
 in AppleDouble format. This is the reverse of
 .Fl Fl no-mac-metadata .
@@ -408,11 +412,11 @@
 .Xr find 1 .
 .It Fl Fl no-acls
 (c, r, u, x modes only)
-Do not archive or extract ACLs. This is the reverse of
+Do not archive or extract POSIX.1e or NFSv4 ACLs. This is the reverse of
 .Fl Fl acls
 and the default behavior if
 .Nm
-is run as non-root in x mode.
+is run as non-root in x mode (on Mac OS X also in c, r and u modes).
 .It Fl Fl no-fflags
 (c, r, u, x modes only)
 Do not archive or extract file flags. This is the reverse of
diff --git a/tar/bsdtar.c b/tar/bsdtar.c
index 591da19..a9252a5 100644
--- a/tar/bsdtar.c
+++ b/tar/bsdtar.c
@@ -232,6 +232,14 @@
 	if (getenv(COPYFILE_DISABLE_VAR))
 		bsdtar->readdisk_flags &= ~ARCHIVE_READDISK_MAC_COPYFILE;
 #endif
+#if defined(__APPLE__)
+	/*
+	 * On Mac OS ACLs are archived with copyfile() (--mac-metadata)
+	 * Translation to NFSv4 ACLs has to be requested explicitly with --acls
+	 */
+	bsdtar->readdisk_flags |= ARCHIVE_READDISK_NO_ACL;
+#endif
+
 	bsdtar->matching = archive_match_new();
 	if (bsdtar->matching == NULL)
 		lafe_errc(1, errno, "Out of memory");