[Cialug] a good idea for file systems?

[Eric Junker]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> At the simple level, like MySQL caches select count(*) from table; the
> file system would cache things like du -sh and file properties. But
> more than that, as you get to the advanced level, it has its own built
> in thing like trackerd or beagle where it can return the results of
> searches extremely fast.

Reminds me of Microsoft's WinFS filesystem. It uses a relational 
database to index meta-data.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfs

Eric