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There is a lot of talk on ZFS the open source file system created originally by Sun (they do have good techies!).

WinFS never made it to Vista, but the ideas of metadata are smart (just like putting metadata via Spotlight). Why isn't this in the file systems themselves?

We have locate and need to updatedb to generate an index to query. Why doesn't the file system do the indexing, and have locate run against the fs itself.