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Tony Hoyle wrote: > 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. Ah... in this case, only writing them in their respective top level sounds faster, as then the vast majority of directories won't have any ACLs to read or parse. Clear them all and start over it is then :) Thanks, Gerhard