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In the starnix design doc [1] they mention the similarity to WSL1. There they mention the reason for abandoning WSL1 for WSL2 was due to poor performance charac
by hencq 4y ago
In the starnix design doc [1] they mention the similarity to WSL1. There they mention the reason for abandoning WSL1 for WSL2 was due to poor performance characteristics of NTFS and that for starnix they need to make sure the filesystem is performant enough to compare against ext4.
[1] https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/2940d6f300031e852333c3ee0548ecba1d69c961/docs/contribute/governance/rfcs/NNNN_starnix.md https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/2940d6f300031e852...
- chx 4y agoThat's not what the document says. Let me quote > Unfortunately, WSL1 was hampered by the performance characteristics of NTFS, which do not match the expectations of Linux software. This is true but whether this was the cause or one of the causes to abandon WSL is impossible to know unless Microsoft tells us. Back in the day they said they are working on NTFS improvements but it needs assistance from the Windows side. Who knows.