Spotlight service

The Spotlight service, available only for macOS machines, allows you to search files on the attached share based on name, metadata, and size. The Open-E JovianDSS creates an index and that index is being used by the client's machine. Bear in mind that no local copy of an index on the client's side is being created. Thus, each new user does not have to generate an index for files once the Spotlight service in Open-E JovianDSS has been enabled. The support for Spotlight service has to be enabled. The SMB service has to be restarted after enabling Spotlight. This option is available after enabling SMB for a given share.

The Spotlight's service database and index are updated during an upload or modification of data on datasets. If the pool that was currently used is exported, or could not be used due to the lack of space, the last imported or created pool will be used for the Spotlight service. The index is also placed on the pool. For example:

• Pool-0 is created, Spotlight is enabled and pool-0 database is used.
• Pool-1 is created, Spotlight is enabled and still database from pool-0 is used.
• Pool-0 is exported and the database from pool-1 is used.
• Pool-0 is imported and the database from pool-1 is used.

Note: Once the service has been enabled, a dataset called _spotlight-db-dataset will be added.