Netatalk 3.1 and Spotlight [Napp-it]

[nle]

I see that Napp-it has updated to netatalk 3.1.

Anyone know if the spotlight-feature is supported on OmniOS?

(afaik spotlight is one if the big features of 3.1 – and would be great.)

 

[gea]

Not yet.

Steffen Kram (maintainer of uulm.mawi, the repo for netatalk on OmniOS) is working on that.
OmniOS Package Repository: uulm.mawi

 

[nle]

Any update on this feature?

I see that the latest netatalk is 3.1.6, while the repo currently has 3.1.3. I also see that the documentation of the spotlight feature has been updated quite a bit since last time.

Thanks.

 

[gea]

Just checked, mawi repo university-ulm is 3.1.6
http://scott.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/...netatalk@3.1.6,5.11-0.151012:20140930T131545Z

But I have not tried myself.
You may ask at the OmniOS mailing list. Steffen Kram answers mails there quite often.

 

[nle]

Thanks, I was actually looking at the wrong repo.

But it still looks like it is still not compiled with spotlight support. I'll see if I'm able to ask the mailing list.

 

[gea]

OmniOS-discuss Info Page

another option is irc
omnios IRC logs [November 12 - 2014]

 

[nle]

I actually ended up emailing him using the contact details on the repo, and got a very fast reply.

He's saying he has tried it earlier, but that it is not an easy task because the spotlight feature uses the Gnome Tracker Project for indexing, and that is deeply tied to Linux and uses some first class Linux libraries.

According to Steffen, it is not impossible, but requires a lot of work. Something that might not be justified since Apple has changed over to Samba4 and main netatalk developers closed their company to work on samba.

So I guess the way to go is to switch over from AFP to Samba4, but as far as I can tell, Samba4 uses the same Gnome Tracker Project to index files – so it could be I'm out of luck. I don't think I am "advanced enough" to figure out how to get that working.

 

[nle]

@gea Do you consider adding Samba4 support directly in Napp-It?

 

[gea]

@gea Do you consider adding Samba4 support directly in Napp-It?

In the end, if Illumos/OmniOS are not adding the SMB 2+ enhancements available from Nexenta a move to SAMBA4 will be unavoidable.

I would avoid whenever possible because
- Solaris/OmniOS CIFS is much easier to handle and manage and fully integrated in ZFS filesystems
- Superiour integration of Windows ACL and Windows AD-SIDs as ZFS file attributes, previous versions etc
- Only OSX has performance problems with SMB1

At the moment, I hope that OmniOS or one of the other Illumos based distributions or Oracle add SMB2+integration. If you are a commercial OmniOS customers with paid support, request SMB2 support (or buy support to request this). This may be the fastest option to get it included in the free Illumos versions outside NexentaStor.