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> A filesystem with indexed metadata sounds great but who is actually using it and how?

One of my first sour experiences with NTFS was the horror involved in learning how to find which files have changed since some given time in a directory. I expected a SQL-ish interface but...omg. omg.

The reason for tracking changes in files was for hot loading art assets into a running program.

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Yup, filesystems in general should have a database/SQL interface. I'm currently using CouchDB and Apache Tika to index and search my files. It works but there is no way people who are not programmers would enjoy using such a system. It's extremely inelegant and requires constant context switching and I'd much rather be using an operating system that had all this functionality as part of the filesystem interface.

> Yup, filesystems in general should have a database/SQL interface

That's basically what FILESTREAM is in SQL Server if you squint.

A visual interface that sorts by type, file size, date time, name, etc, are just intuitive group_by SQL commands.

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