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I have always wanted Windows to move to Unix so that I can have the best of both worlds(software development and video games). Glad that we are close to that re

• windward 1y ago
  You'd also need a sane filesystem.
  • p_ing 1y ago
    Windows has NTFS and ReFS. Both are quite sane and performant.
    • windward 1y ago
      I know. Neither are either. git is noticeably slower, the locking is untenable, the case-insensitivity is a source of bugs.
      • p_ing 1y ago
        Both file systems support case sensitivity. Use DevDrive in a virtual disk or secondary volume, there are significant performance gains for things like git, nodejs modules, etc. It helps to know the system. The perf would be an issue with any file system on Windows due to the file system filter architecture. Locking is a function of the NT executive and not of the file system. It was a design decision. I’ll see if I can dig up the reasoning later.
      • p_ing 1y ago
        From the NT Design Workbook, oplocks. > Because the NT OS/2 I/O system is asynchronous by nature, the ability to make a request and then have it completed at a later time makes it natural for implementing oplocks. Further, because synchronization is required by the file system to determine when the caller has completed its oplock update transfers, the file system can use this feature to block open requests to a file by queueing the I/O Request Packet (IRP) to its internal file control structure until the oplock owner lets it know that it is finished.