Automounted, Encrypted SSDs in Windows Subsystem(medium.com)
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Automounted, Encrypted SSDs in Windows Subsystem
https://medium.com/@stefan.berkner/automatically-starting-an-external-encrypted-ssd-in-windows-subsystem-wsl-6403c34e9680
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That's smart! It gives you access to any filesystem under Windows with somewhat easy (?) ability to transfer between Windows partitions and external volumes mounted in WSL.
Not sure if I got your comment correctly, but this is rather not about existing drives (though it could be applied to them), but to have a dedicated drive running within WSL that has a native performance. WSL handles existing drives (those that are readable under windows and linux) as a network drive using the 9p protocol. And, frankly, the performance sucks. E.g. I only reached write speeds of ~125MB/s when using 9p (while the disk is NTFS formatted and encrypted with Bitlocker), while the native LUKS encryption + ext4 reached 460MB/s. Using this approach transfer between Windows and Linux still would be slow though.
Thinking about that...I should probably have mentioned this in the article.
Thinking about that...I should probably have mentioned this in the article.