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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)
Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being
>> backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls.
>>
>> When I use something like:
>> find /c -exec getfacl {} \; > mysavefile
>>
>> It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on
>> each file found.
>> Is there a faster way to do this (hopefully without having to go write
>> C-code)?
>
> getfacl -R?
I think you're guessing. There's no -R option in the "getfacl --help"
output and it got rejected when I tried it just in case.
cheers,
DaveK
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