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PeCaN on Aug 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Practical File System Design: The Be File System (...

I think NTFS can index alternate data streams¹, but yeah, I agree no filesystems are on the level that BeFS was of easy querying and versatility.

¹ I am not sure about this, but https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3... seems to suggest it

acdha on Aug 19, 2016 [–]

I'm not sure either – it definitely did not in the past but I haven't needed to look into it for years. Things like WinFS were going to solve that the right way but since that never shipped I assume they were still relying on a bolt-on indexing service.

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