I hate the new windows store container method of installing software. Its acts like an untouchable, unreadable, off limits container.
Windows on Btrfs
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux has good NTFS drivers. If you want to dual boot and share files, you just make three partitions: Windows (NTFS), Linux (whatever the cool kids are using these days), and Shared Data (NTFS).
And before linux had good NTFS drivers, you just put your shared data on FAT32.
EXFAT is another option these days.
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#213Related tangent: Something I don't fully understand (perhaps I just haven't found a project that facilitates it) is why there isn't a Windows extension (driver?) that allows for native mounting of ext4 partitions within Windows explorer. Surely, given the Linux native file system is open source, adding the ability to mount ext4 partitions natively should be something people can add to Windows? I have seen third party…
Writing filesystem drivers for Windows is extraordinarily difficult, more so than generic drivers and the result is hard to call GPL compatible because a signature which is basically not obtainable for individuals is required to load them.
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#214Title should be: Windows and Linux - btr(fs) together!
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is due to file system filter [drivers], not the file system. NTFS is perfectly fine and performs well.
Hmm. I thought the problem was that NTFS is not particularly fast at file creation. Generally not a problem, except for the folks who wrote the npm tooling which generates 10,000 files in the blink of an eye.
Yep, I feel (a little) bad for anyone doing node development on Windows (though I probably should feel bad that they're having to dev in JS).
But this isn't an "NTFS problem" as you'll have this occur on any filesystem that supports file system filters, like antivirus.
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#216Related tangent: Something I don't fully understand (perhaps I just haven't found a project that facilitates it) is why there isn't a Windows extension (driver?) that allows for native mounting of ext4 partitions within Windows explorer. Surely, given the Linux native file system is open source, adding the ability to mount ext4 partitions natively should be something people can add to Windows? I have seen third party…
This looks like what you need: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-dis...
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
And before linux had good NTFS drivers, you just put your shared data on FAT32.
EXFAT is another option these days.
In my experience, exFAT support in Linux is worse than NTFS support (and NTFS is more likely to be installed out-of-the-box). If you also need to support macOS, then exFAT might be an option, but exFAT lacks journalling and doesn’t scale too well due to cluster size/count limits.
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#220Related tangent: Something I don't fully understand (perhaps I just haven't found a project that facilitates it) is why there isn't a Windows extension (driver?) that allows for native mounting of ext4 partitions within Windows explorer. Surely, given the Linux native file system is open source, adding the ability to mount ext4 partitions natively should be something people can add to Windows? I have seen third party…
> Related tangent: Something I don't fully understand (perhaps I just haven't found a project that facilitates it) is why there isn't a Windows extension (driver?) that allows for native mounting of ext4 partitions within Windows explorer. Such projects have long existed, but I suspect there's a lack of interest. It's a difficult technical problem with a narrow usage niche. You need somebody who wants both Windows an…
Now that the new NTFS3 driver is out in the wild there's also not much need. The number of people who boot windows and need to access an ext4 partition is tiny compared to the number of people booting Linux who need to access NTFS.