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How does this true Linux Kernel talk with the rest of Windows? How does it access the Windows file system?
by 781 7y ago
How does this true Linux Kernel talk with the rest of Windows? How does it access the Windows file system?
- yodon 7y agoThe same way the current implementation does. The news here is not that Windows can run Linux natively, that's been true since 2016.
- 781 7y agoThe current implementation is a shim over the NT kernel. This new one is a true Linux kernel.
- alkonaut 7y agoPerhaps more interesting then is how the true Linux Kernel works with NTFS without paying the tax that usually comes with the fancy NTFS features
- resoluteteeth 7y agoIt's obviously not mounting the NTFS filesystem directly, since it's already in use by Windows, so this is irrelevant to how NTFS is normally mounted in linux.
- 0x54D5 7y agoThe Windows disks are mounted at /mnt/c /mnt/d etc The real issue is being able to read the WSL disk from Windows which you have to access as a network share from localhost
- the8472 7y agonfs, cifs, virtio-9p? or virtio-fs, whenever that lands.
- amatwl 7y agoIf it's anything like the Linux files inside File Explorer supported they added previously (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl-in-windows-10-version-1903/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl...), it'll be using some derivative of Plan 9.
- sbisson 7y agoWindows uses 9P, it uses CIFS.