Yes, recursive chmod might work somewhat faster. If you need more help with the syntax for ACLs, these two KB articles are written as "how-to"s, in a addition to the concise "man chmod": [URL]  [URL]  hth -- Peter
Hey,  we want to add AD group permission recursively to one of our folders. When doing it through windows it takes long time till all permissions applied to subdirectories and files. there is option to append new ACL to folder through isilon and not replace all permissions ? clone & inherit option in Permission repair job replace all ACLs of the folders and files and not append the new ACL to it. maybe chmod -R +a...... ?
Append New ACL Recursively To Folder