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Re:Microsoft Surface Studio by sveiss on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:51PM (#12802592)
WSL doesn't actually run a Linux kernel; it emulates the syscalls and process environment Linux offers and provides a binary loader. It's WINE in reverse.

So there's no ext4 driver, and no concept of loopback mounts.

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Re:Microsoft Surface Studio by int_19h on Thursday October 27, 2016 @02:30PM (#12807904)
Ah, indeed (although it's not quite WINE in reverse, since WINE emulates userspace calls, not kernel syscalls).

I see that there's considerable demand for this exact thing in their bug tracker already. If they go for a low-hanging fruit here, it'd be FUSE support - and that should give us ext2, at least.

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