by replete on 4/5/2025, 7:40:53 AM
by cors-fls on 4/5/2025, 2:00:31 PM
I have been made aware of ReFS thanks to the "Dev drive"[1] technology in Win11. ReFS is apparently particularly suited to store source code and code artifacts for dev workloads.
I have been using it (dedicated DevDrive partition) for some time but performance improvement are subtle and not easily visible without measurements. Which I haven't done.
by myrandomcomment on 4/6/2025, 1:30:21 AM
IIRC, because I am old, NT 3.1/3.51 supported HPFS from OS/2. Now get off my lawn.
by hulitu on 4/5/2025, 7:42:03 AM
> Microsoft is testing
This is a contradiction in terms. Microsoft doesn't test anything. Always the user has to do it.
I found around 6-15% performance improvement in build times after implementing DevDrive (mounted VHD) on Windows machines, which uses ReFS. Deleting huge folders was also perceivably faster.