[adgjlsfhk1]

I do think that talk is way too kind to the windows design. they're trying to make the argument that windows filesystem isn't slow, but the talk is how fixing the problem took 3 months of optimization and direct help from Microsoft. all of this could be avoided if Microsoft made their filesystem not ridiculously slow

[p_ing]

NTFS/ReFS are not slow. But there is an extensible file system filter layer above them that can slow things down.

[ormax3]

microsoft introduced Dev drives for this reason, they are optimized such that no file system filters are attached

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

[creatonez]

I thought by filters they quite literally mean the antivirus filters in Defender? Does it strip down some of the Windows file semantics too?

[p_ing]

File system filters are pluggable kernel drivers. For example, ProcMon (Sysinternals tool) monitors file systems via a file system filter -- so fun fact, if you outright disable file system filters on a ReFS volume, you won't get any ProcMon results! This was a 'duh' moment for me.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i...