OpenZFS on OS X

Posted: **Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:13 am**

From the FAQ: https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/FAQ#Q.29_ ... ht_work.3F

Relevant GitHub issues:
https://github.com/openzfsonosx/zfs/issues/84
https://github.com/openzfsonosx/zfs/issues/116

Posted: **Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:50 am**

gperrin wrote:Thanks, I'm aware of (albeit not subscribed to) those two issues.

For an earlier version of the software I recall reading that with a writeable file system, Spotlight would work with limitations – such as, the metadata store would not persist. (True?)

Where there is a metadata store: does 1.3.0 use something other than the .metadata_never_index file to suppress Spotlight?

Yes, you got it. It's only the .metadata_never_index, but it is re-written next mount if you try to delete it.

Posted: **Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:53 am**

I missed the "readonly" part.

You could try seeing whether mdfind -onlyin would help at all, but I doubt it will work because the Spotlight issues derive from the (ridiculous) OS X need for one /dev/disk* entry per file system, which is the point of issue 116.

OpenZFS on OS X

1.3.0 with Spotlight with a read-only version 28 pool

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Re: 1.3.0 with Spotlight with a read-only version 28 pool

Re: 1.3.0 with Spotlight with a read-only version 28 pool