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If you are building natively, yes. However the original comment is about Dev Containers which runs under WSL2.

If you open a native Windows folder in VSCode and activate the Dev Container, it will use the special drvfs mounts that communicate via Plan9 to host Windows OS to access native Windows files from the Docker distro. Since it is a network layer accross two kernels, it is slow as hell.





That is the beauty of Plan 9's design. :)

I haven't tried, but the idea was to map a such a drive into WSL, but I am not sure if it is possible and indeed how much it would help in the end.


You can mount raw VHDX files even raw normal bare metal drives in WSL2, that's true.

However, Linux needs to understand the FS inside.




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