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by ormax3 419 days ago
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/

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