Is anyone using Windows 11 Dev Drive? It uses ReFS instead of NTFS and is supposed to be considerably faster at builds. I wondered in anyone has tried it before I waste time only to find it doesn't play nice with git / .net / umbraco ? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

works fine

I use it. It's a free performance boost. Nothing else changes from your point of view. I'd say it's more resilient and thus safer for your files, but I mean, we're all using Git anyways.

Thanks @Matt Wise it was a post demonstrating the speed boost that got me interested. However there seemed to be some custom configuration or node that put me off a while back.

From tests people seem to get a nice boost. I don't think I noticed it much "in real life" but I liked knowing that things probably run faster, so I enabled it. It's been fine, did notice a speed increase on the old laptop. Just got a new PC so I don't know what it would have been like without Dev Drive, but it's on again. I did also move npm and nuget caches as described in https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2023/11/22/test-driving-windows-11-dev-drive-for-dotnet.html

I use it and it's alot better if you also put all your NuGet caches there. I think Microsoft has an article on it. Will link later

mmm, I just installed it myself, but it is taking longer to do a clean+rebuild on the devdrive than on my normal disk volume, so maybe I did something wrong

Not sure but of course if you dedicate a slow drive to it then it wouldn't help. Also, a clean+rebuild might need to re-download nuget packages (if you moved those to the dev drive too) so try that a few times. Also, do make sure your anti-virus isn't interfering here. I do have an exception in my antivirus for my source code since scanning a lot of small files all the time really (really) slows your IDE down.

Did you go with a physical or virtual drive @Sebastiaan ?

Ah yes, well.. I started with a new PC recently, so I had the luxury to dedicate a whole drive to it!

Ooh nice. I read some issues with the dedicated drive option but that sounds like a great way to work. And that is a considerable build time saving.

ah, could be virus checker 😄 will add an exclusion

The dev drive should automatically do some exclusions with your AV

There is a setting in windows security for dev drive which I believe does th checks asynchronously but does not exclude it.

It really did not for me.. but the AV is controlled by the organization so it probably didn't have permission to do so.

Ah right, reading it again that's right. Interesting!

Great stuff!

I used to be a big advocate for 'em, oh how the times have changed

same! 😅 to be fair, Microsoft AV used to be terrible.. now it's the very opposite for all non-MS versions lol

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/#how-do-i-configure-additional-filters-on-dev-drive ??

Interesting, thanks for sharing!