What's wrong with adding metadata to each file and indexing that? I thought this was essentially a solved problem. Also, the OP solution merely sounds like a s

What's wrong with adding metadata to each file and indexing that? I thought this was essentially a solved problem. Also, the OP solution merely sounds like a slightly altered filesystem. I thought he was going to propose something akin to WinFS, Microsoft's ploy to merge an SQL database with a filesystem, but it turned out to be a dud.