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Overlay copy-on-write filesystems are slow. I think most container runtimes use them.
by throwaway892238 4y ago
Overlay copy-on-write filesystems are slow. I think most container runtimes use them.
- baq 4y agocompared to full-VMs-pretending-to-be-containers everything is fast. it seems like everybody here is using Macs for development to the point that if you don't say you aren't, you are assumed to be on a mac. Windows with WSL2 is actually pleasant to use, I can recommend trying it out. while WSL2 is a VM technically, the level of integration makes it basically native (if you use the VM disk for your workspace, which you should.)
- justinsaccount 4y ago> if you use the VM disk for your workspace, which you should. Yep, if you try to build something that is stored on /mnt/c you'll have the same horrible performance.
- justinsaccount 4y agoIt's not the COW filesystem that is slow, it's bind mounting the host filesystem into the VM. This ends up using something like 9p or sshfs.