Re: Metadata doesn't start indexing automatically
Re: Metadata doesn't start indexing automatically
- Subject: Re: Metadata doesn't start indexing automatically
- From: Charles Francoise <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:41:15 +0200
On 04 Sep 2014, at 19:21, Quinn The Eskimo! <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 4 Sep 2014, at 17:23, Charles Francoise <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> What properties should a filesystem exhibit for its metadata to automatically start indexing upon first mount?
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> 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.
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> 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).
Thanks for clearing that up! I’ll just enable the indexing by hand for now. And I’ll be back with a detailed report when we go public beta and get some field testing done.
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> <https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/>
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> Finally, on the subject of Spotlight, it will be significantly faster if your implementation correctly supports the following two capabilities:
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> o VOL_CAP_FMT_PATH_FROM_ID
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> o VOL_CAP_FMT_PERSISTENTOBJECTIDS
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> 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.
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Thanks for the tips!
These are features that our filesystem can support and I was wondering which capabilities were worth implementing.
We’ll add those and see how well Spotlight does.
Thanks,
Charles
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