Comment by chefandy
2 years ago
Their "windows dev drive" setup addresses this. I haven't tested it myself but I saw a couple of inexpertly executed tests showing significant performance gains. I honestly have no idea if my compile times are quicker.
You can get benches from the horses mouth.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/
But the primary improvement comes from async A/V, not the file system.
ReFS offers other improvements such as CoW and instant file initialization which can benefit developers. From this standpoint, it is the correct choice over NTFS.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/dev-...