Copy-on-Write in Win32 API Early Access

(Updated Apr 4 and 26, 2024 with some release news. Also see the next post) On October 25, 2023, the Windows filesystem team released an early preview of copy-on-write (CoW) linking in the Windows 11 Insider Canary channel. This builds automatic CoW linking into the Win32 CopyFile APIs when using Dev Drive or ReFS. If … Continue reading Copy-on-Write in Win32 API Early Access