FYI, WSL now supports mounting physical disks. So if you're running a setup like that, you can take advantage of a VM managed for you, along with not having to

FYI, WSL now supports mounting physical disks. So if you're running a setup like that, you can take advantage of a VM managed for you, along with not having to run Samba because files are made available in explorer (via 9P). I was able to get it working (with a few setup issues) with a RAID 1 mirror: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6711#issuecomment-1006246183 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6711#issuecomment-10... (Forgive linking in the middle of a Github issue. Everything ended up working with the latest updates and being an administrator.)