File System Improvements To the Windows Subsystem for Linux (microsoft.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:00AM from the moving-forward dept.

An anonymous reader shares a new article published on MSDN: In the latest Windows Insider build, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) now allows you to manually mount Windows drives using the DrvFs file system. Previously, WSL would automatically mount all fixed NTFS drives when you launch Bash, but there was no support for mounting additional storage like removable drives or network locations. Now, not only can you manually mount any drives on your system, we've also added support for other file systems such as FAT, as well as mounting network locations. This enables you to access any drive, including removable USB sticks or CDs, and any network location you can reach in Windows all from within WSL.

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good by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-20 08:03 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm glad to see Microsoft fixing basic Linux problems. Perhaps this is the years of Linux on Windows on the desktop.
Windows turning into another Linux distro? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-20 08:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Seems like Microsoft is headed rapidly towards migrating towards full Linux compatibility. Soon we'll be able to run WINE under Windows.
wow by mattyj · 2017-04-20 08:12 · Score: 4, Funny

They ported the 'mount' command to Linux! How novel!
What's next, 'dir'?