Enthusiasts have successfully demonstrated the ability to download Windows 10 from a section that uses the BTRFS file system. The support for BTRFS was provided through an open driver called winbtrfs, which proved to be capable enough to fully replace NTFS. To accomplish the download of Windows directly from a BTRFS section, an open bootloader called quibble was utilized.
This innovation of using BTRFS for Windows is particularly relevant for saving disk space in dual-boot systems. This is because the contents of the Linux and Windows environments do not intersect at the level of basic catalogs, and both can be placed in one common file system without using individual sections. The Windows systemic environment was transferred to BTRFS from the source NTFS section with the help of ntfs2btrfs. After this transfer, the BTRFS section was installed with Arch Linux using the utility pacstrap.
To illustrate this implementation, two images were provided. The first displays the disk properties, while the second shows the Windows root environment installed in a BTRFS section.
It is worth noting that the successful demonstration of this capability is still in its experimental stage and may require further testing and development before it can be widely adopted. Nonetheless, it highlights the promising potential of open drivers and bootloaders in expanding the possibilities of file system management.