Actually, to Andre's point, spotlight doesn't work on CIFS, only AFP.
In talking with one of our desktop team folks, the specific issue isn't due to indexing (though that is an issue, not having it..) but specifically getting directory listings on the CIFS share from OS X is very slow. Windows users do not have that problem.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 05:22 PM, Tony Bar wrote:
Ryan –
You can disable spotlight on a per-filesystem basis, see the bottom of the link for details.
*Anthony Bar*
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*From:* Ryan Pugatch [mailto:rpug@lp0.org]
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 4, 2015 2:19 PM *To:* Tony Bar *Cc:* Toasters@teaparty.net *Subject:* Re: CIFS on Mac
I don't think we would want to disable spotlight across the board. It is useful in some cases.
Thanks,
Ryan
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 04:03 PM, Tony Bar wrote:
Ryan -
This may help:
http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-yose...
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On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@lp0.org wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating,
and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with
Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant
from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks,
Ryan
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