[OpenAFS] mac clients spotlight-indexing AFS

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Fri, 7 May 2010 16:36:02 -0400


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Dan Pritts <danno@internet2.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we've experienced weird slowness issues on some macosx client machines.
>
> We eventually traced it down to spotlight attempting to index afs;
> adding /afs to the spotlight exclude list has fixed the problem.
>
> It doesn't occur on all our machines, of different seemingly-identical
> clients, some have the issue and some don't.
>
> We'll see if we can track it down further, and will file a bug
> with Apple. =A0Perhaps this helps someone.
>
> Should the mac installer automatically add AFS to the spotlight exclude
> list? =A0Obviously this sort of thing "should never happen," but explicit=
ly
> forbidding it doesn't seem like that bad an idea.

it's a network drive, it's not "supposed to" happen.

10.5? 10.6?