Spotlight not working any more ?

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Spotlight not working any more ?

Post by jollyjinx » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:23 pm

I'm no longer seeing results from my zfs disks in spotlight searches any more. It worked with Zevos May beta version, but now it does not.
Anybody knows a workaround ?

Patrick aka Jolly
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Re: Spotlight not working any more ?

Post by grahamperrin » Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:31 pm

Please, are all ZFS datasets affected?

If not all: are child datasets alone affected?

Which OS?

Are all Spotlight categories affected, or is the effect more severe for one category – folders, maybe?

mddiagnose may be useful.
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Re: Spotlight not working any more ?

Post by semond » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:34 am

I'm also having trouble with Spotlight. Can't compare with May beta… before this I've only been using zfs a mac through Zevo Silver and maczfs on external drives.

Here are the filesystems:

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serge@tungsten /t/serge> zfs list
NAME                            USED   AVAIL   REFER  MOUNTPOINT
tungzten                       295Gi  69.1Gi   174Ki  /tungzten
tungzten/Applications         50.3Gi  69.1Gi  50.2Gi  /tungzten/Applications
tungzten/Library               104Gi  69.1Gi   104Gi  /tungzten/Library
tungzten/serge                 141Gi  69.1Gi   607Mi  /tungzten/serge
tungzten/serge/Documents      2.55Gi  69.1Gi  2.55Gi  /tungzten/serge/Documents
tungzten/serge/Downloads       484Mi  69.1Gi   484Mi  /tungzten/serge/Downloads
tungzten/serge/Library        49.0Gi  69.1Gi  48.7Gi  /tungzten/serge/Library
tungzten/serge/Music          50.6Gi  69.1Gi  50.6Gi  /tungzten/serge/Music
tungzten/serge/NoBackups      7.59Gi  69.1Gi  7.59Gi  /tungzten/serge/NoBackups
tungzten/serge/Pictures       28.6Gi  69.1Gi  28.6Gi  /tungzten/serge/Pictures
tungzten/serge/sync-services   730Mi  69.1Gi   730Mi  /tungzten/serge/sync-services


And here's what spotlight can see:

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serge@tungsten /t/serge> mdutil -s -a
/:
   Indexing enabled.
/tungzten:
   Indexing enabled.
/tungzten/serge:
   Indexing enabled.


Attempting to activate spotlight on other filesystems fails:
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serge@tungsten /t/serge> mdutil -E -i on /tungzten/serge/Documents
/tungzten/serge/Documents:
Error: unable to perform operation.  Try as root.  (-400)
   Error: unknown indexing state.
serge@tungsten /t/serge> sudo mdutil -E -i on /tungzten/serge/Documents
/tungzten/serge/Documents:
Error: unable to perform operation.  (-400)
   Error: unknown indexing state.


As expected, I can only find things directly in an indexed filesystem.

Mounting tungzten/Applications and tungzten/serge directly in place instead of symlinking (e.g. on /Applications and /Users/serge) doesn't change much.
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Re: Spotlight not working any more ?

Post by asmod4n » Sun Sep 23, 2012 11:06 am

You have to enable show child file systems in the ZEVO Prefpane
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Re: Spotlight not working any more ?

Post by semond » Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:17 pm

It's amazing how a checkbox can make one's life easier.

It certainly pollutes a desktop, but it does the job. Thanks for your help.
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Re: Spotlight not working any more ?

Post by jollyjinx » Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:46 am

I had that checkbox checked ( I read the releasenotes ), but it was not working. Now after a couple of reboots Spotlight seems to have found the disks again and it's working again fine. Still there is some error there that Spotlight did not find the disks right away.
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Re: Spotlight not working any more ?

Post by grahamperrin » Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:38 pm

jollyjinx wrote:… Spotlight did not find the disks right away.


Please, was your installation of ZEVO Community Edition 1.1:

  1. to a relatively clean operating system; or
  2. over the Ten's Complement beta?

Which version of OS X?

If 10.8.2: was the timing of your most recent installation of ZEVO broadly coincidental with Apple's 2012-09-19 update from 10.8.1?

Did you use an Apple developer preview of 10.8.2 with the Ten's Complement beta of ZEVO?

Cross reference: occasional eject, unmount issues.
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Re: Spotlight not working any more ?

Post by jollyjinx » Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:49 am

I was using Zevo CE v1.1 with using Zevo betas since December - so no clean system.
I was waiting for the Zevo CE to be out a few days before I installed and then used it and found out that spotlight was no longer working. I think I was using 10.8.2 at the time but could have been 10.8.1 , no beta of 10.8.2.

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