When WinFS was canceled, I started my own pet project to build a new kind of file system that totally changed the way file metadata was stored and managed. I bu

When WinFS was canceled, I started my own pet project to build a new kind of file system that totally changed the way file metadata was stored and managed. I built an object based system that could easily handle hundreds of millions of files within a single container (what I called a pod) and do searches much like how you would search a large database table. The 'file table' contains a 64 byte record for each object and has some very unique characteristics that make searches incredibly fast (e.g. it can find all the photos in under a second, even if there are 20 million of them among 200 million files). You can also attach various metadata 'tags' to each object and find matching objects based on them. The project is in open beta and anyone can download it and try it out on their own computer. https://www.didgets.com https://www.didgets.com