10-02-1997,Frank Sexton wrote to Will Honea:
FS> I do know that you can apply "permissions" to a very large
FS> NT NTFS drive and watch it work its way all the way down
FS> the subdirectories in a matter of a few seconds.  I
FS> expected the ACL list to be about the same.  But... then...
FS> I don't really know exactly what an ACL list is anyway :-).
I'm not a real expert on them, either, but working with Warp Server
under HPFS386 I'm pretty sure that the Access Control List was also
stored as part of the fnode for each entity - I'm not sure if that was
down to the file level or not - which could explain a BUNCH of time
with lots of files.  I seem to recall seeing that Warp HPFS also has
some entity level access flags.  Makes sense in that it provides a
typical IBM belt-and-suspenders approach - speed be damned.   Will Honea
whonea@codenet.net
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