WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
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WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
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Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#2I can’t find any benchmarks on this, anyone have a sense of the speedup that can be expected here?
And for what it’s worth, that version isn’t available yet when I try to update WSL.
Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#3If it is as good of an improvement as the first major update, it will be hard to tell from native.
Hopefully, they will just push it out to everyone asap. We make heavy use of symlinks into Windows drives.
Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#4They are undoubtly doing this because so many users operate out of /mnt/c with zero clue of that implication.
Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#5I can’t find any benchmarks on this, anyone have a sense of the speedup that can be expected here? And for what it’s worth, that version isn’t available yet when I try to update WSL.
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Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#6They are undoubtly doing this because so many users operate out of /mnt/c with zero clue of that implication.
Would you mind elaborating (for those of us uninformed)
Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#7Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#8Moved to mac about 7 years ago because of horrible WSL file system speed was.
Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#9Moved to mac about 7 years ago because of horrible WSL file system speed was.
Same here, though I went to Linux first for several years. WSL file speeds, especially when running npm install, were the impetus that ultimately got me to switch off of Windows.
Re: WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
#10Moved to mac about 7 years ago because of horrible WSL file system speed was.
You could just move your files to the WSL file system