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Haven't there been some efforts in implementing "database filesystems"? Wasn't this supposed to be a key feature of Windows Vista?

An FS that supported indexing and querying of files through metadata was a key feature of BeOS, actually.

And yes, MS claimed their project, 'WinFS', would be a key part of Vista (aka Longhorn), but then dropped it in 2006.

Seems like MS has had go at this problem many times since 1990 and never cracked it.

I thought of BeOS immediately. Then iTunes, actually. I can always quickly find what I am looking for in itunes on account of the column browser.

A regular filesystem really is a database, actually... a hierarchical, tree-structured one.