Mac metadata service holding vaults open

Stevarino

Hello,



I'm using the trial version of Knox and so far I'm liking it a lot. However, one issue I've been having is that sometimes my vaults cannot be closed without warning dialogs. After doing some research is appears that the Mac metadata service (mds) has a file reference to the open volume (based on lsof output). If my understanding is correct, the metadata service is associated with Spotlight indexing. Do I need to explicitly turn off Spotlight indexing for my vaults or is there another solution?



Thanks.

dteare

Hi Stevarino, and welcome to the forums!



[quote name='Stevarino']I'm using the trial version of Knox and so far I'm liking it a lot.[/quote]



This is great to hear!



[quote name='Stevarino']However, one issue I've been having is that sometimes my vaults cannot be closed without warning dialogs. After doing some research is appears that the Mac metadata service (mds) has a file reference to the open volume (based on lsof output). If my understanding is correct, the metadata service is associated with Spotlight indexing.[/quote]



Yes, Spotlight needs to do some work every time you modify files on the volume. You might also see "mdworker" appear during this time. Both of these should disappear after a few minutes, depending on the size of the files you added or changed.



[quote name='Stevarino']Do I need to explicitly turn off Spotlight indexing for my vaults or is there another solution?[/QUOTE]



This is an option but once Spotlight is finished it should close all its open files and let you close the volume w/o the warning. How long did you wait before closing the vault? Also, how much data did you add?

Stevarino

Thanks for the reply. I had added about 10 GB of data to the volume. The volume had been mounted for awhile by the time I tried to unmount it, but I'm not exactly sure how long.



I saw something on the net that said if you put a .metadata_never_index file in the root directory of the volume then Spotlight won't index it. I've tried that and I haven't had any problems with unmounting the volume. I didn't need indexing for this particular volume so that was a reasonable solution.

MartyS

Thank you for letting us know your workaround. The Knox Preferences option for disabling Spotlight for a vault would have worked in your case as well I believe: that's its purpose... to tell Spotlight to not do any indexing.