On: WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly

[lozenge]

But your Windows NT processes can't access the files

[orra → lozenge]

Perhaps not as a drive path, but they can via a UNC style path. For example you can browse to these in Explorer:

\\wsl$

\\wsl.localhost\Debian

[coldacid → orra]

Which, interestingly, uses 9P as the file system protocol between Windows and the WSL instance.

[smoldesu → coldacid]

How deep does this Glenda-hole go?

[coldacid → smoldesu]

I hear that the reason we went from Windows 8.1 to 10 was that Redmond didn't want to release Plan 9 from Microsoft. ;)