USuserbinator·Sep 14, 2017
Network filesystems are not perfect but they sure try very hard in a far more challenging environment than two subsystems on the same machine to give a "unified" access to the filesystem.
It blows my mind that Windows engineers are building (and keeping up-to-date) an entire Linux compatible subsystem. That's a huge investment, and a pile of hairy legacy code if the project should ever die.
Considering that multiple efforts by others[1][2][3][4][5], some of them working alone, have gotten quite far in running Linux binaries on Windows without any of the deep knowledge of Windows internals that Microsoft would have, maybe it's not all that huge of an investment... then again, the edge-cases are the hard part and MS does tend to like overcomplicating things.
[1] https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux
[2] https://cowlark.com/lbw/
[3] https://