Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
- Subject: Re: Spotlight sources w/o actual files?
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:18:45 -0500
On Jun 10, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Rasmus Andersson wrote:
Oh, just as I feared. The problem is the metadata itself is probably
hundreds of gigabytes, if not terabytes in size, so it would be
impossible to have mdimporter index "fake" files.
If the _meta_data is really that large, then this is sort of an insane
thing to try to do. It means that at least that much data will have
to be accessed by Spotlight on the initial indexing pass, and
similarly that much data will need to be stored in Spotlight's
indexes. How much network traffic will this involve? How much CPU to
run your importer on all of this data? How much disk space to store
the metadata into Spotlight's index? This is just plain abuse of
Spotlight.
Regards,
Ken
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