Yeah, there are pleanty of dead and abandoned projects in this space. Maybe the concept is worthless without a tool for metadata management?
Also I should probably have specified that by "missing" I mean, "there is nothing well maintained and production grade" ^^'
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti_(software)