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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by the8472 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @06:32AM (#22876237)
If microsoft implemented the host side of virtio-fs then the guest could make use of that.

Also, IO performance of WSL1 wasn't exactly great either compared to native linux filesystems.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by stragies on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @06:44AM (#22876284)
Here's an excellent post by SvenGroot from MS with lots of background-info: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issuecomment-60...
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by __tg__ on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:37AM (#22878221)
The most useful bits are always buried deep down in the threads. Thanks for posting this.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by wahern on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @06:21PM (#22883796)
Apparently[1] virtio-fs wasn't mainlined in Linux until 5.4, which was rolled last November. I thought it had been mainlined years ago. That helps to explain why support is lacking everywhere.

[1] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.4

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