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The Resilient File System (ReFS) is Microsoft's newest file system, designed to maximize data availability, scale efficiently to large data sets across diverse workloads, and provide integrity agains...
Char_Cheesman
Updated Dec 27, 2024
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Karl-WE
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Mar 28, 2024

Can you please elaborate on ReFS Boot? I understood confidential computing in VMs is the motion why ReFS now has been improved to support OS boot in the first place, which wasn't possible for long time and as a base made compatible with dism? TYVM.

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Vikas_Tikoo
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Mar 29, 2024
As you mentioned we extended ReFS so that it can be used as a boot volume. Earlier ReFS volumes could only be attached as data disks. This was important for the Confidential VM scenario as we wanted to have an FS with integrity protection capabilities right after boot.
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    HotCakeX
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    Jun 01, 2024
    Hi, will it be also available on Windows 11? What about Windows Server 2025 installed locally on a physical machine or Hyper-V VM? Thanks