I understand a lot of the benefits of ZFS and Powershell. But whats wrong with NTFS? Can you talk a little about the relative strengths of NTFS vs EXT4?
Disable/remove the file system filter drivers and the performance issues largely disappear.
In general NTFS doesn’t do well with lots of small files because opening files is expensive compared to ext4 (dramatic oversimplification). This shows up in random places where very little actual file reading/writing is happening for each file, like yarn, docker, installing video games, etc.
I'm aware of their claim about using Group Policy to remove the limit but I've never used GP in order to know its sharp edges for my gaming computer
0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming...
Office does its own thing and doesn't leverage MAX_PATH. No idea why.