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Re: APFS - Options and tools
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Re: APFS - Options and tools

  • Subject: Re: APFS - Options and tools
  • From: Thomas Tempelmann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:13:50 +0200
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Thomas Tempelmann <email@hidden> wrote:
1. It would be nice if it would support the BSD searchfs (CatalogSearch) operation, or something similar on macOS.

To clarify - I watched the APFS session where it was briefly mentioned that searchfs will not be supported. I just wonder what's the reason for that - technical difficulties or simply the belief it's not needed any more?

I assume the only way to search an entire APFS volume without searchfs support will be to iterate the directories recursively. This will still be much slower, though, because every file attribute has to be passed from the FS (kernel) layer to the user space, for the searching app to be able to get a look at it.

There are still plenty of cases where users want to search the entire file system by a file name or date range and not just rely on Spotlight. Spotlight only records files that are believed to be relevant to most users, which excludes system folders and bundle contents, for instance). Removing support for searchfs will not make those users happy when they find out that searching their boot volume suddenly takes minutes where it only took a few seconds before on HFS+.

Has this been considered? Will there be something new that'll help with this?

Thomas

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