Spotlight yes/no?

This forum is to find answers to problems you may be having with ZEVO Community Edition.

Moderators: jhartley, MSR734, nola

Spotlight yes/no?

Post by sanhi » Mon Dec 17, 2012 5:27 pm

Hi all,

I've installed the Zevo ZFS package and relocated my Users folder to the ZFS filesystem. After that I'm unable to get any results in Spotlight (both Mail and regular Cmd+Space search). I'm wondering (and Googling doesnt give me a clear answer) is Spotlight supported yes/no? At least the pool has Spotlight turned on, but the specific Filesystems refuse enabling of Spotlight with the message:

Error: unable to perform operation. (-406)
Error: unknown indexing state.

I'm not sure this is by design, or that I'm missing something completely. I've tried zapping the Spotlight indexes with mdutil -E <pool> , mdutil -i on <spool> but to no avail.

Anyone?

Kind regards,

Sander
sanhi Offline


 
Posts: 2
Joined: Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:12 am

Yes

Post by grahamperrin » Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:11 am

Welcome!

Yes, ZEVO supports Spotlight.

If the file system is a child (somewhere other than the root of a pool), then check the required box in the ZEVO pane of System Preferences.

If the problem persists, then maybe check permissions at/around the root of the file system. Are they what they should be?

Compare with permissions at/around a home directory where Spotlight finds no problem.

Side note: all uppercase for the word ZEVO …
grahamperrin Offline

User avatar
 
Posts: 1596
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:21 pm
Location: Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Re: Spotlight yes/no?

Post by sanhi » Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:30 am

Excellent! I totally missed that box in the ZEVO pane. Ticked that box and reboot, Spotlight is now indexing.. problem solved.

Thanks for your quick answer!
sanhi Offline


 
Posts: 2
Joined: Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:12 am


Return to Troubleshooting

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: bileyqrkq, ilovezfs and 0 guests

cron