Spotlight and DVDs

[Mikuro]

Whenever I insert a DVD (data, not movie), there's a lot of activity with it for a minute or so. I have to wait for it to stop churning before I can actually DO anything with the DVD, because until it's done performance is just too slow to be usable.

I checked Activity Monitor, and it seems like the culprit is "mds". If I'm not mistaken, that's part of Spotlight. I assume Spotlight is not indexing the DVDs for two reasons: 1) Everywhere I look says that Tiger doesn't index optical media, and 2) It does this every time I put a disc in; if it were indexing it, it should only need to do it once per disc. If it's not indexing it, what IS it doing, and is there any way to get it stop?

 

[fryke]

It might simply be _trying_ to do it, for some reason that is not normal to OS X. Haven't seen this behaviour so far, though. Does it happen with a test account, have you fixed permissions etc.? It certainly shouldn't be like that.

 

[Mikuro]

I did repair permissions, to no effect.

I need to do some more tests with my "clean" account. I tried it once, and it didn't do anything. But then the next time I tried with my regular account, it didn't do anything either for about 10 minutes, and then it started thrashing. I don't know what to make of that.