Microsoft is working on a replacement for the tired old New Technology File System, or simply NTFS file system created with Windows NT in the 90's and still used today.
Referenced by the codename "protogonos," the new file system was found in the latest leaked build of Windows 8. It remains unclear, however, if the new file system will replace the NTFS or is it merely a complementary subsystem.
According to Mary Jo Foley enthusiasts and Rafael Rivera, the file system "seems to incorporate concepts of database, such as transactions, cursors, lines and tables," which suggests that it may replace or supplement the NTFS.
Remember that Microsoft has tried to introduce a new file system before. The late WinFS, as it became known, came to be publicly presented by Microsoft as a company event as the successor to Windows Vista NTFS, but the proposal never emerged from the laboratories of the company.
The question is whether this time Microsoft is going all the way this time, and if the Protogonos will be ready in time for the release of Windows 8 - what should happen next year. Not to mention that uch information is extra-office, ie, there is no official guarantee that the feature is present in the final version of the system.
