WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows - maharmstone/btrfs

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WinBtrfs is an open-source Windows driver implementation for the Btrfs filesystem. It is compatible with Windows XP onwards, supports various Btrfs features such as RAID, compression, symlinks, and more. The driver can be installed by downloading and extracting the latest release. It is also available on package managers like Chocolatey and Scoop. Secure Boot may require a registry change to load the driver. To uninstall, the driver can be removed from the device manager or via the registry. Visual C++ or GCC can be used to compile the driver from source. Debugging can be done using DebugView and debug versions of the driver.

an open-source btrfs driver for Windows

LXSS ("Ubuntu on Windows" / "Windows Subsystem for Linux")