Hi Alan,

Thanks for the tip, I'm joining the list now so I'll post back as and
when I find anything.

Thanks,

Dan

On Sep 7, 9:27 pm, Alan shouls <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 
> clienthttp://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 
> athttp://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfoThere 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
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