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That's the first I've heard that MS doesn't try to build Windows on Windows with NTFS.
by youdontknowtho 7y ago
That's the first I've heard that MS doesn't try to build Windows on Windows with NTFS.
- dijit 7y agoI don't have first hand experience, but I know some people at MS who work on Xbox (which is a modified version of Windows+HyperV underneath); From what I understood from them, they do not use NTFS (they use SMB from a clustered filesystem) for builders, but they _do_ use a heavily modified version of windows, incidentally that modified version went on to become "windows nano". What the actual "Windows" team does is a mystery to me though, I would assume it was similar or the same.
- youdontknowtho 7y agoThat's super interesting. I wonder if they have moved to use SMBv3? I really liked the direction with Nano in 2016, but I guess it makes more sense as a container OS. Still, the latest version is what a lot of people wish they could start an operating system with. NT kernel, no wmi, no servicing, no activation.
- dooglius 7y agoAs a developer, you do some builds on your local box, so it's really up to you what filesystem you use.
- pitterpatter 7y agoAll the Windows devs I've met built locally on their machines for their own day-to-day dev work and testing. I don't know anyone that used a filesystem other than NTFS. But definitely fast NVMe SSDs and disabling Defender for the local repo checkout. The build machines are a different story and I don't know the specifics of.