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Much of the performance problem comes from layers on top of NTFS itself- it's not just the virus scanner. Ext4 might be faster but I doubt it would be enough to
by Rusky 7y ago
Much of the performance problem comes from layers on top of NTFS itself- it's not just the virus scanner. Ext4 might be faster but I doubt it would be enough to ditch WSL2 for those use cases that need it.
- WorldMaker 7y agoAlso, some of the "performance problems" are simply different access models. Windows and NTFS tries to provide some database-like ACID characteristics, including transactions at the level of batches of file updates with commit/rollback support. Ext4 and Linux (intentionally) make few such guarantees and so it shouldn't be surprising have very different performance profiles, just as you might expect between a NoSQL database that makes no ACID guarantees and an SQL database with multiple types of locks and several types of transaction behaviors.