The new file system that Microsoft Windows 8 would want to integrate, will ReFS be called in place of the current codenamed Protogon. The new file system is based on a database model.
Although Microsoft officially still nothing has been released about the use of a new file system, was already in June, in early alfaversies of Windows 8, code found that referred to a Protogon filesystem, among other things, in the form of a kernel mode driver. Meanwhile, reports the website Winunleaked.tk that the file system in recent builds has been renamed to ReFS. The reference to the new file system is to be found in the dialog box for formatting a volume.
ReFS would bear resemblance to the Windows Future Storage file system, which is accordance with the original planning of Microsoft in the former Longhorn, or Windows Vista, would be included. WinFS would be based on a database model with concepts as rows, tables, and transactions, and had the goal to make searches faster. The ntfs successor would eventually, though not in Windows Vista are included and also in Windows 7 WinFS is not present.
With the discovery of parts of ReFS, which is also a ntfs emulation layer would contain the last builds of Windows 8, Microsoft will now be possible still to take the step to this file system. Microsoft showed recently in a posting to know that Windows 8 in any case, with volumes of 3TB and larger, provided the hardware supports this. This is, among others, the need for a pc with a recent uefi.
