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10.4: Create Spotlight indexes for networked volumes
Authored by: jdb8167 on May 08, '05 03:55:58PM

I went to a Tiger Tech talk from Apple in Boston last year where Spotlight was a big part of the presentation. Afterward there was Q&A and a lot of questions were asked about Spotlight indexing servers and read-only media. At the time, the Apple evangelist, Xavier Legros seemed unsure on how Spotlight would end up working. The developers at the talk brought up the bandwidth issue and also the fact that indexing remote volumes and leaving around large index files was sure to get system administrators up in arms as well.

It looks like Apple decided to be conservative, leaving the functions available from the command line but disabling it altogether from the UI. It is also interesting that Apple seems to have taken the feedback seriously because at the time, I got the distinct impression that they really didn't see a problem with indexing remote volumes automatically. Several of us made a strong argument that indexing from every client would be a bad way to get Tiger deployed into the enterprise.



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