Protogon is the preliminary name for a file system

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 feature found in leaked builds of Microsoft

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 Windows 8

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. It is found in leaked builds starting with 6.2.7955. , little is known about the filesystem. Protogon is not readable by Windows 7 or earlier. It is also unclear how complete it is; a volume formatted with Protogon under Windows 8 build 7955 may be unreadable by the final version of Windows 8. Support for Protogon is absent in the Developer Preview (build 8102).

External links

• http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Protogon-File-System-in-Action-205522.shtml