Windows Btrfs Driver Updated With New Capabilities (WinBtrfs)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Windows Btrfs Driver Updated With New Capabilities (WinBtrfs)

For those needing to access a Btrfs file-system from a Microsoft Windows OS, the independent WinBtrfs project provides a native driver for being able to access Btrfs from Windows...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WinBtrfs-RAID-Seeding-More

[xeekei]

I would like to have this for both XFS and EXT4. Paragon's driver isn't free and I'm not *that* desperate for one.

[doublez13]

I wonder how hard it would be for Microsoft to write a VFS implementation similar to Linux's.

[zman0900]

Raid 5/6? I thought even the Linux driver doesn't work properly with that.

[horizonbrave]

Did they stop the development for Linux and just focus on Windows now?

[liam]

I wonder how hard it would be for Microsoft to write a VFS implementation similar to Linux's.

Do they have a vfs? I know it's got to be pretty different since it supports async io through the entire io path.
A better question is how hard would it be to make the Linux vfs not such a pain point.