Feature Request: Add a tab to the main TrueNAS navigation that has fsearch/everything app type instant search functionality

[WantsTheZFS]

Having an instant search index available would be really nifty to have directly build into TrueNAS. Is this something that has or does exist?

 

[sretalla]

I understand that the version of SAMBA used has been compiled with the elasticsearch functionality... maybe that's the closest there is for now.

It takes some configuring as far as I understand and I haven't personally done it.

How to enable SMB Spotlight support?

I see that after 3 years my suggestion was added https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-100120?filter=-2 Now that TrueNAS 12.0 is out how would I go about enabling this? https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight_with_Elasticsearch_Backend From what I understand I need Elasticsearch instance...

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Spotlight with elasticsearch backend on SMB shares

Hey guys, maybe you can help me out. I'm really not sure if I getting this right. I'm trying to get an SMB share with proper spotlight working accessing form macos clients, according to here you can use elasticserach as backend...

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[Kris Moore]

Just to be clear, are you talking about search / index of all the files on the storage pool, or search in the UI of all the TrueNAS features / pages? Or both? :)

 

[WantsTheZFS]

pool,

More the former, but the latter could be super useful as well.

Since a fairly large number of users are single, user archivist, I think an instant search feature would be well appreciated, especially if you could configure which datasets are searched, update interval, and had an API so simple, light weight search clients could be made for every OS (Win/Mac/BSD/DEB). I actually think it should be incorporated as a ZFS tool, but baby steps. If IXsystems can show how much people love it, a ZFS upstream isn't out of the question :).

 

[Kris Moore]

Ok, that helps clarify. This seems like a good candidate for a suggestion ticket on jira.ixsystems.com to let us gage interest in such a feature. We've talked about adding support to SMB so that built-in search on Windows/Mac works, but doing at a ZFS pool level is something we've not considered yet.