[cvsnt] Re: ACLs again...

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Sun Jan 15 22:38:38 GMT 2006


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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



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