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Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > That got me thinking... is there a difference in performance between using > the recursive nature of the ACLs and set them only in their respective top > level directories (faster at the one time of setting, but possibly slower > on every access) or use the -R option and explicitly set the ACLs in all > subdirectories (slower at the time of setting, but possibly faster on > normal accesses)? Not a lot... the ACLs are cached from each directory as it recurses so it only reads each once. Of course it has to parse them, but since it's an in-memory image it's a lot faster. Tony