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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostIs it possible to install Windows in a non MS file system?
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Originally posted by sdack View PostI was asking this question about the performance not because of Linux or the Linux kernel, but when WinBtrfs turns out to be an effective implementation of Btrfs on Windows then it wouldn't be just some gadget utility for accessing Linux disks, but it would also be a serious competitor to NTFS itself. One could then choose to format disks of a Windows PC with Btrfs only for gaining a better performance.
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Originally posted by PuckPoltergeist View PostThere is an in-kernel driver for NTFS. It was benched against ntfs3g and it showed ntfs3g was much faster. So FUSE is not an argument. The benchmarks I remember, showed ntfs3g comparable against native Linux filesystems and native Windows NTFS. The main drawback of ntfs3g is the very high CPU utilization.
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostIs it possible to install Windows in a non MS file system?
Theoretically, if it is using EFI calls to scan for Windows systems like a sane EFI bootloader would do, we could just have a shim load standalone EFI drivers (like those from here http://efi.akeo.ie/ ) before calling it.
this is the only thing I've found that has any kind of info about how EFI booting works on WIndows side https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win.../boot-and-uefi
While it is for both mobile and desktop, it at least says the boot manager operates inside UEFI environment, and isn't 100% standalone.
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Originally posted by sdack View PostJust what would we do without you?! We'd have to read about boring benchmark numbers here on Phoronix. So thank you for your input. *lol*
What btrfs-on-windows can do is at least provide a decent inter-OS filesystem that isn't NTFS, albeit btrfs might not be the best filesystem choice.
I had hopes for f2fs, as Samsung said they would make a Windows driver, and being Samsung an actual company tehey could go through the certification process to get it into the kernel mode on Windows.
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostNTFS is sorta slow on linux, but it's not that bad on Windows
maybe for some specific test case like writing one large file windows ntfs will be better than linux ntfs, but who needs that anyway?Last edited by pal666; 05 September 2017, 09:28 PM.
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