# White Papers on Using Elastic for Unstructured Data Queries on ZFS Filesystem

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/white-papers-on-using-elastic-for-unstructured-data-queries-on-zfs-filesystem/298877>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 4, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/white-papers-on-using-elastic-for-unstructured-data-queries-on-zfs-filesystem/298877 "2022-03-04T21:36:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![minorsatellite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minorsatellite](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minorsatellite)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/white-papers-on-using-elastic-for-unstructured-data-queries-on-zfs-filesystem/298877/1 "2022-03-04T21:36:30Z")

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Im new to Elastic. Im wondering if anyone has successfully used Elastic alongside a ZFS Dataset in order to perform filesystem searches, and if so, what might that look like, and would it a user-friendly solution for non-technical users?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/white-papers-on-using-elastic-for-unstructured-data-queries-on-zfs-filesystem/298877/2 "2022-03-05T03:33:20Z")

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Can you explain better what you are looking for?

Elasticsearch does not search on file systems or mounted points, it is only able to search on data that is ingested in the tool and available on its indices.

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/white-papers-on-using-elastic-for-unstructured-data-queries-on-zfs-filesystem/298877/3 "2022-03-05T03:40:47Z")

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Well perhaps you could use the fscrawler + Elasticsearch

Here is a webinar on it..

> **[Searching anything, anywhere with Workplace Search](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/archive/2020/global/searching-anything-anywhere-with-workplace-search)**

And the docs...

[https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/fscrawler-2.9/](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/fscrawler-2.9/)

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**Author:** ![minorsatellite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minorsatellite](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minorsatellite)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/white-papers-on-using-elastic-for-unstructured-data-queries-on-zfs-filesystem/298877/4 "2022-03-05T04:36:07Z")

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Thanks for your reply. I looking to be able to search a large filesystem similar to what a user might do with Google Desktop search.

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**Author:** ![minorsatellite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minorsatellite](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minorsatellite)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/white-papers-on-using-elastic-for-unstructured-data-queries-on-zfs-filesystem/298877/5 "2022-03-05T04:36:32Z")

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Thank you, will take a look.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/white-papers-on-using-elastic-for-unstructured-data-queries-on-zfs-filesystem/298877/6 "2022-04-02T04:37:12Z")

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