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		TiredOfLife on Sept 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI Seeing how every file system (NTFS) imrovement since windows 7 (like new compression methods) is done in layers running on top of ntfs. I think that Microsoft has either lost the source to ntfs driver or institutional knowledge of how it works.

jdub on Sept 11, 2021 [–]

The real answer is that they're building filters on top of NTFS because that's precisely how it was designed to work.

CRConrad on Sept 13, 2021 | [–]

GP's explanation was almost as plausible, and much funnier.

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