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Rather it's their baroque ACL permission system, which is not able to cache inherited perms.

• forgotpwd16 4y ago
  The ACL permission system is in NTFS. For example FAT32 doesn't have it.
  • rurban 4y ago
    Yes, but if you turn off inheritance perf goes up 10x. It's a policy, not the NTFS driver itself.
    • forgotpwd16 4y ago
      Can you provide links providing more info for those statements?
      • rurban 4y ago
        no, just try it out. all my cygwin build rules contained turning off inherited perms to be able to compile bigger systems under an hour. e g. https://github.com/rurban/cygwin-rurban/blob/master/release/perl/build_common#L110 https://github.com/rurban/cygwin-rurban/blob/master/release/...