Enabling ACL in /etc/fstab

I wish to set FACL for a file-system "/ua1003" with Read-Write permission for my user-account 'ashok'. When I try to do it, I noticed the file-system isn't mounted with ACL feature enabled. I have added the 'acl' option in /etc/fstab for that mount point and did a remount. After that, I was able to set the FACL. Below shown is the sequence which I did to make the ACL work:

[root@hostxyz ua1003]# setfacl -m u:ashok:rwx /ua1003                          
setfacl: /ua1003: Operation not supported                                                  <-- ACL not enabled
[ashok@hostxyz /]$ grep /ua1003 /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ua1003           /ua1003                   ext3    defaults        0  0        
[ashok@hostxyz /]$ vi /etc/fstab
[root@hostxyz ~]# grep /ua1003 /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ua1003           /ua1003                   ext3    defaults,acl        0  0   <-- Enabled ACL feature in /etc/fstab
[root@hostxyz ~]# mount -o remount /ua1003                                           <-- Remounting /ua1003
[root@hostxyz ~]# setfacl -m u:ashok:rwx /ua1003                                    <-- Setting FACL to the parent folder
[root@hostxyz ~]# getfacl /ua1003
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: ua1003
# owner: applprod
# group: dba
user::rwx
user:ashok:rwx
group::r-x
mask::rwx
other::r-x
[root@hostxyz ~]# setfacl -R -m u:ashok:rwx /ua1003                               <--Setting FACL recursively
[root@hostxyz ~]# getfacl /ua1003
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: ua1003
# owner: applprod
# group: dba
user::rwx
user:ashok:rwx
group::r-x
mask::rwx
other::r-x
[root@hostxyz ~/#

PS: To check if ACL is enabled on a given file-system, execute 'tune2fs -l <devicename>' command and look out for "Default mount options".