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 > _________________________________________________________________ > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
