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Does anyone know if native or near-native disk IO performance is coming to WSL? This has been a pretty big challenge from using it if your use case requires any decent iops. It would be magical if WSL could do physical NVMe pass through for example....

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I think WSL2 has that, WSL1 used to be super slow disk wise, but I've seen near-native disk speeds on NVME drives on WSL2 (Specially useful for node_modules)

Only when accessing WSL-owned files though right? Like, if you're wanted to work on the same repo with some Linux tools and some Windows tools you'd still have a ton of pain points?

You’re going to probably run into issues anyway. Linux tools expect case-sensitive file systems and explode in interesting ways when they’re not.

Depends what you're doing and how windows-centric your files are I guess. At my last job I mixed and matched tools like that, and it generally worked great aside from the mediocre disk throughput.

This is one of the things that turned me off from WSL: not sure if something has changed recently with WSL2, but for example installing Node deps would take forever on the old WSL, to the extent of ridiculousness and just not being worth using

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