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Wasn’t this the whole idea and purpose of the successor to NTFS which was supposed to ship with Longhorn/Vista? What happened there?


The story I heard was that performance sucked. Granted it could have sucked for other reasons, as other failed efforts like writing more OS components in C# were happening at the same time.


WinFS. I don't know much about it, but I understand it was to have some properties similar to what I've described.




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