Setting recursive permissions on Volume with a large amount of files.

[NAScake]

Howdy All,

I guess my first mistake was waiting to set permissions on my volumes till after copying over all the files. Now I have one volume with 150K files that I need to set permissions on. In the documentation it mentions doing this at the client level. Checking permission on folders from a windows client does not allow me to set recursive permissions. Should I just modify the volume permissions from the UI, set recursive and let it run all night?

Thanks,

~NC

 

[tropic]

I'd SSH into the box and do it from the command line. Much faster, and MUCH more reliable in this situation.

 

[tachikoma01]

Forget the webUI, it seems theres a bug on this (for me with freenas 8.2 recursive change with owner and group change just fail). Use ssh to do this and -R option to do it recursively. You can do it from the webUI shell, if don't want to activate ssh.

 

[logan54]

Hello,
I've noticed the same behaviour a few hours ago, change owner and group recursively failed too on GUI

logan54