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pxc on Sept 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

> even on the same NTFS filesystem

can you explain a bit how this works?

pkaye on Sept 11, 2021 [–]

I think they use extended attributes in NTFS to provide the Linux file system permission.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/file-permission...

_ugfj on Sept 11, 2021 | [–]

That was WSL v1. WSL v2 is a full blown VM and the filesystem is native ext4 and lives in an image file.

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