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Re: Metadata doesn't start indexing automatically


  • Subject: Re: Metadata doesn't start indexing automatically
  • From: "Quinn \"The Eskimo!\"" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 18:21:25 +0100

On 4 Sep 2014, at 17:23, Charles Francoise <email@hidden> wrote:

> What properties should a filesystem exhibit for its metadata to automatically start indexing upon first mount?

Spotlight has a hard-coded list of file system types it supports.  Things work this way because Spotlight acts like a file system test tool--that is, it applies a lot of stress to the file system implementation--and our experience is that most third party file systems don't hold up under that level of stress.  The end result is a bad experience for our mutual users.

If you think that Spotlight should be enabled on your file system by default, please file a bug laying out your case.  I encourage you to include detailed information about how you've tested Spotlight on your file system (after enabling it by hand with mdutil).

<https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/>

Finally, on the subject of Spotlight, it will be significantly faster if your implementation correctly supports the following two capabilities:

o VOL_CAP_FMT_PATH_FROM_ID

o VOL_CAP_FMT_PERSISTENTOBJECTIDS

If your file system cannot support the above two capabilities, Spotlight can still work, but will be slower because those capabilities will have to be emulated.

Share and Enjoy
--
Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware



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