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drvfs

The filesystem driver WSL2 uses to mount Windows drives like C into the Linux side. Any path under drvfs, such as /mnt/c, pays the 9P protocol tax that a native ext4 path never does.

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9P protocolThe network file-sharing protocol WSL2 uses to let Linux reach files on the Windows drive. Every read, write, or stat under /mnt/c travels over it, which is why those operations run far slower than native Linux filesystem calls.view term->Exec format errorA Linux error raised when the kernel cannot run a binary because it was built for the wrong architecture or platform, a known regression on WSL1.view term->
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