Hi Dan, > Is it possible with MacFUSE to mark a drive as "slow" or equivalent. > By that I mean, in Windows you can mark a drive as a network drive > which will stop various operations such as thumbnailing which is very > useful when your data store is remote. As far as I know this is not possible. If you are writing a remote filesystem it will have to be full victim to whatever requests that programs using it put it to. There was an interesting message on Apple's filesystem-dev on this issue by Jim Luther who wrote Apple's WebDAV client http://lists.apple.com/archives/filesystem-dev/2009/Feb/msg00013.html > Can the same be done in OSX? > I've searched all the documentation I can find but found nothing > useful so far.
I think that you *may* be able to add a special hidden file to the root of a volume that will stop SpotLight from indexing a volume - it may be that there is also a mechanism for stopping QuickLook (which deals with the generation of the thumbnail images). Probably the best place to ask this question is on the Apple mailing lists that deal with QuickLook and Spotlight. I imagine that you will get a good response there. You can join these lists at http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo There are also archives available. If you do find out the the score on this it would be great if you posted your findings back to this list - as I imagine it is something that other people might want to know about. Best regards Alan Shouls _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
