ITunes on external HDD via Thunderbolt 1 showing Permissions Problems

I have ITunes Media on a Pegasus R6 unit since it is large and my Macs have SSD drives which are firstly not large enough & secondly I prefer to keep most important things externally. It works fine !
But when I run Disk Utility Verifying Permissions on the SSD I get a huge amount of permissions problems they dont seem to effect the performance but there must be over 100 problems I can run Repair Permissions and although it claims to have sorted them if I VERIFY THE PERMISSIONS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PROBLEMS ARE STILL THERE ! I have re structured iTunes since it had a Media folder within the Media folder the problems still show.
I did not have this problem with OSX 10.8 the system seems unaffected by the permission problems but it is odd that in spite of repairing Permissions the problem continues .
I should add there does not appear to be any problems running iTunes I am a little ****** at having sent quite a lot of time remioving all the media from the disk I use for iTunes copying it to another disk and then starting afresh which also meant creating all my playlists again.
Here is a screen shot of the problems showing after Verifying permissions this is after running Repair Permissions .
I hazzard a guess that this is a Mavericks fault and is very minor but irritating.
Is there a solution I can do or will a future Mavericks update take care of this.

Yes pleAse do move it over the permissions verification shows ACLs language store settings etc none of which actually effect the performance I run disk utility either after software updates or before a weekly shutdown and it shows these faults if my Pegasus unit is attached and since I use it for photos time machine back ups etc it is connected all the time I have verified the Pegasus disks and they are fine although obviously I can not verify permissions on any of these disks .

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