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This one? I remember it as an earnest description of the difficulties the WSL team had with the speed of NTFS - and I think it was one of the reasons for the sw
by espenwa 4y ago
This one? I remember it as an earnest description of the difficulties the WSL team had with the speed of NTFS - and I think it was one of the reasons for the switch to virtualisation in WSL2.
<https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425272829 https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...>
- pxc 4y agoYeah, that's the GitHub comment, thank you! My takeaway from that comment is that there are some important performances issues that apply generally to all filesystems on Windows. Maybe we can partially test whether that's the case by playing with WSL1 on ReFS, ExFAT (if that's even supported, with its limited permissions support, or ZFS, once OpenZFS on Windows stabilizes a bit.