DEV Community

Discussion on: Reflinks vs symlinks vs hard links, and how they can help machine learning projects

Collapse
 
luiz0x29a profile image
Real AI • Edited

Windows has support for Copy-On-Write if you use the Enterprise version and format the drive with ReFS. It can't boot from ReFS, but you can have additional drives, which are useful. (although I didn't test it yet, I'm using VSS to version that drive, which is for my ML project)
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-s...

ReFS is available

Collapse
 
luiz0x29a profile image
Real AI

I'll consider formatting the drive to test if that dvc tool works.

It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to implement it docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/w...

The irony, git-lfs has support for it. github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/b9...

And dvc doesn't.
github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/318b...

Please take note !