Indexing and searching disabled.

[jwilliams108]

Hi, I've been trying out keeping my Homebrew cellar on a ZFS mount (i.e., /usr/local/Cellar), but it seems that Spotlight is not indexing it.

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mdutil -s /usr/local/Cellar
/usr/local/Cellar:
   Indexing and searching disabled.


No amount of -i on/off seems to change this. I have enabled com.apple.mimic_hfs, if that's relevant. Any ideas on how to get spotlight to index this mount?

Thanks!

[jwilliams108]

Hmmm... also noticed the same problem on my Documents directory, which is a ZFS mount as well.

EDIT - ok, sorted it. It was due to com.apple.browse being set to off on those mounts. I was using that to prevent the drive icons from showing on the desktop. Turned it on, and switched to chflags hidden and now they are being properly indexed and are still hidden from the desktop.