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powershell script to add WSL exclusions
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add_wsl_exclusions.ps1
$win_user = "ipc"
$linux_user = "ipc"
$package = "CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc"
$base_path = "C:\Users\" + $win_user + "\AppData\Local\Packages\" + $package + "\LocalState\rootfs"
$dirs = @("\bin", "\sbin", "\usr\bin", "\usr\sbin", "\home\" + $linux_user + "\.cargo\bin")
$dirs | ForEach { Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess ($base_path + $_ + "\*") }
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $base_path
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cbdj commented Jan 30, 2019

Does this resolve the IO performance issue (microsoft/WSL#873) on WSL ?

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