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by pkaye 1720 days ago
Are you thinking of something like WinFS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

Or more like Beos BFS with its extended attributes, indexing and querying?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System

Also I think a lot of the old mainframe filesystems had the concept of records and indexes built in since they were primarily used for business operations.