May 31, 20251 yr Hi Unraid Community,I’m looking for advice on the best way to get efficient macOS Spotlight search—ideally including content indexing—working on an SMB share hosted by my Unraid server (~10TB). I want searching from my Mac to feel as seamless as searching local files.Here’s what I’ve looked into so far:macOS client-side indexing (mdutil): Tried this, but indexing is extremely slow (still running after 24 hours on 1TB dataset).Third-party Mac apps (e.g., ProFind): Faster, indexing took less than an hour, but not no Spotlight integration, not native experience.Unraid server-side indexing (Samba vfs_spotlight): Seems promising. I see options for gnome tracker as a backend or using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch with FSCrawler on forums and samba wiki,, but I’m unsure about setup complexity and performance for a large share.My questions:What’s the most reliable solution for Spotlight-style search on large Unraid SMB shares?Does Unraid’s Samba include Tracker support out of the box, or does it need extra setup?For those who’ve tried both: How do Tracker and Elasticsearch/FSCrawler compare (performance, reliability, resource use, full-text vs. metadata search)?Are there any other server-side options that work well with macOS Spotlight?Thanks for any tips or experiences you can share! You guys are the best!
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