Well it seems the long and short answer is no, there is currently no way to do that.
Ah well, back to the drawing board. Dan On Sep 8, 8:00 pm, Worlock <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/listinfoThereare 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
