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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by adgjlsfhk1 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @10:21AM (#43772573)
I do think that talk is way too kind to the windows design. they're trying to make the argument that windows filesystem isn't slow, but the talk is how fixing the problem took 3 months of optimization and direct help from Microsoft. all of this could be avoided if Microsoft made their filesystem not ridiculously slow
Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by p_ing on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:25PM (#43773862)
NTFS/ReFS are not slow. But there is an extensible file system filter layer above them that can slow things down.
Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by ormax3 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:18PM (#43776224)
microsoft introduced Dev drives for this reason, they are optimized such that no file system filters are attached

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by creatonez on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:45AM (#43780524)
I thought by filters they quite literally mean the antivirus filters in Defender? Does it strip down some of the Windows file semantics too?
Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by p_ing on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:20PM (#43785163)
File system filters are pluggable kernel drivers. For example, ProcMon (Sysinternals tool) monitors file systems via a file system filter -- so fun fact, if you outright disable file system filters on a ReFS volume, you won't get any ProcMon results! This was a 'duh' moment for me.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i...