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That's super cool. I would be much more likely to keep windows around if it could boot from a btrfs volume.

• djsumdog 7y ago
  I thought about that too, but looking through the README, there are some considerable complications (and funny bugs). The author has tested this on a lot of Windows versions! I feel like this was a toy/thought experiment that turned into learning a lot about Windows, EFI, bootstraping, etc.
  • omgtehlion 7y ago
    Most of funny bugs arise from not-really-exact filesystem copying during install. But making a perfect duplication tool seems to be out of scope of this project. Nice experiment, anyway.
    • my123 7y ago
      Issues would be solved as soon as you'd be able to install a WIM image directly, which should actually be possible.
      • rekoil 7y ago
        I thought about that as well, can't we just load the WinBtrfs driver from the installer?
  • londons_explore 7y ago
    It looks like windows can't copy some in-use files, and Linux can't copy some attributes. Why not copy as many files as possible with windows, and then go to Linux to copy the last few?