Setting Permissions Recursively - Long Time?

[Baldrick]

After setting up FreeNAS with no users or groups (total access for all), I found that I could only read files - not write. I went to Volumes and set it to Set Permissions Recursively. That was over an hour ago and it still says 'Please Wait'...

There's prolly 300 gigs and 20,000 files. Is this to be expected? I'm wondering if it's locked up or I'm just being impatient...

Thanks!

 

[fracai]

You're changing permissions over the network. If you can read up on how the 'chmod' and 'chown' tools work you can execute those from the command line on your FreeNAS box and they'll be much quicker.

Regardless, it'd probably be worth it to just create a user in FreeNAS and then set all the files to be owned and readable/writeable by them.

 

[dlavigne]

Yup, that's going to take a while...

From http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes#Setting_Permissions:

Set permission recursively checkbox if checked, permissions will also apply to subdirectories of the volume or dataset; if data already exists on the volume/dataset, it is recommended to instead change the permissions recursively on the client side to prevent a performance lag on the FreeNAS® system