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That's super cool. I would be much more likely to keep windows around if it could boot from a btrfs volume.

I thought about that too, but looking through the README, there are some considerable complications (and funny bugs). The author has tested this on a lot of Windows versions!

I feel like this was a toy/thought experiment that turned into learning a lot about Windows, EFI, bootstraping, etc.

Most of funny bugs arise from not-really-exact filesystem copying during install. But making a perfect duplication tool seems to be out of scope of this project.

Nice experiment, anyway.

Issues would be solved as soon as you'd be able to install a WIM image directly, which should actually be possible.

I thought about that as well, can't we just load the WinBtrfs driver from the installer?

It looks like windows can't copy some in-use files, and Linux can't copy some attributes.

Why not copy as many files as possible with windows, and then go to Linux to copy the last few?

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