The mystery of Windows 8's new 'Protogon' file system

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Windows enthusiast Sandro Villinger has a nice summary of some of the known and unknown Windows 8 features that various folks have discovered since internal “milestone” builds began leaking over the past couple of months.

Villinger makes a passing mention of something I hadn’t heard of in his Windows 8 Top 10: Something named (or codenamed) “Protogon.”

From his May 31 IT World article:

 

“I’ve also dug up traces of some underlying file system changes that I couldn’t quite make sense of, such as an entirely new file system driver called “NT Protogon FS driver”, which looks like a kernel mode driver for some sort of (yet unknown) file system called Protogon. It’s unclear, whether this is a major new file system or just some minor subsystem.”

 

Source: All About Microsoft