Disk Utility Shows "Owners Enabled: No" Even When it *Is* Enabled

I have an external AoE (Coraid) disk array that I have mounted to an XServe machine using OS X 10.6.8 Server.  I was having frustrating problems with file ownerships going away, until I figured out that it was due to ownership being disabled on this drive, which is the default for external drives.
So, I used Finder | Get Info and unchecked the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox.  That seems to have fixed the problem, and ownership is now preserved on this volume.  I checked with diskutil as well, as it also confirms that ownership is enabled.
However, even after rebooting the machine, Disk Utility (the GUI) still says, "Owners Enabled: No" for this volume.  Absolutely nothing I can think to do will make Disk Utilty stop claiming that ownership is not enabled.  I even used diskutil to disable and then re-enable ownership.  Everything *seems* to be working, but this is still a concern.  Is it a bug in Disk Utility?
The volume's filesystem, btw, is Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled).

Well, the volinfo.database is fine. You might check the system.log and the asl.log for any entries about diskarbitrationd but I have a feeling you won't find anything. You could double post over in the Server forum or over at MacOSXHints- has a bunch of server admins who visit there frequently.

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