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I ran WSL2 + Storage Space from August 2019 to March 2020. It works well. I ended up switching from Storage Space to DrivePool because it's really hard to diagnose Storage Space when it misbehaves. And when it does fail (and it will), it does so in spectacular fashion. I was bummed out about losing parity functionality but DrivePool + Snapraid is fine for my use case. Anyway, I was able to use DrivePool with WSL2 (Docker) by mounting cifs volumes (windows shares). Here's an example: version: '3.7' services: sonarr: build: . container_name: sonarr volumes: - type: bind source: C:\AppData\sonarr\config target: /config - downloads:/downloads cap_add: - SYS_ADMIN - DAC_READ_SEARCH volumes: downloads: driver_opts: type: cifs o: username=user,password=somethingsecure,iocharset=utf8,rw,nounix,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 device: \\IP\H$$\Downloads Note that I'm building the image. This is because I need to inject cifs-utils into it. Here's the dockerfile: FROM linuxserver/sonarr RUN \ apt update && \ apt install -y cifs-utils && \ apt-get clean There are security considerations with this solution: 1. Adding SYS_ADMIN capability to the docker container is dangerous 2. You need to expose your drive/folders on the network. Depending on how your windows shares are configured, this may be less than ideal. Hope this helps!

So, nearly two and a half years down the line and a few small changes have been made: Main ESXi/Storage Server Case: LogicCase SC-4324S OS: VMWare ESXi 6.7 CPU: Xeon E5-2650L v2 (deca-core) Mobo: Supermicro X9SRL-F RAM: 96GB (6 x 16GB) ECC RAM GFX: Onboard Matrox (+ Nvidia Quadro P400 passed through to Media Server VM for hardware encode/decode) LAN: Quad-port Gigabit PCIe NIC + dual on-board Gigabit NIC PSU: Corsair CX650 OS Drive: 16GB USB Stick IBM M5015 SAS RAID Controller with 4 x Seagate Ironwolf 1TB RAID5 array for ESXi datastores (Bays 1-4) Dell H310 (IT Mode - passed through to Windows VM) + Intel RES2SV240 Expander for Drivepool drives (Bays 5-24) Onboard SATA Controller with 240GB SSD (passed through to Media Server VM) ESXi Server (test & tinker box) HP DL380 G6 OS: VMWare ESXi 6.5 (custom HP image) CPU: 2 x Xeon L5520 (quad core) RAM: 44GB ECC DDR3 2 x 750W Redundant PSU 3 x 72GB + 3 x 300GB SAS drives (2 RAID5 arrays) Network Switch TP-Link SG-1016D 16-port Gigabit switch UPS APC SmartUPS SMT1000RMI2U Storage pools on the Windows storage VM now total 34TB (mixture of 1,2 and 4TB drives) and still got 6 bays free in the new 24 bay chassis for future expansion. There's always room for more tinkering and expansion but no more servers unless I get a bigger rack!