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I wonder about this too.

I know that apt-get works since earlier instead of the terrible Cygwin distribution model, but yes, IIRC there are NTFS streams being used for the Linux file system metadata IIRC and if these get overwritten or somehow modified things go bad. And NTFS streams being a somewhat uncommon NTFS feature, some applications don't handle them well?

On the other hand, wasn't a new Windows 10 Creators Update feature that you could now indeed edit the files from Windows, and not just from the Linux subsystem? And that the Linux tools such as web servers are now even notified when the files change so they can reload them automatically? I'm not sure how they solve the metadata borking issue though, in that case.