Just been playing around with the new (and experimental) --compact option. Test system was a Windows 7 installation with the wofadk.sys driver added. I captured this as a .wim file, then applied this new wim using the --compact switch.
When applying the .wim using a Windows 10 based WinPE no errors/warnings were displayed.
When applying the same .wim using WinPE 3.1 (and also Windows 7), lots of warnings were displayed.
The "Creating files:" stage finished without error. Output from creating files stage
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Applying image 1 ("Windows 7 WIMBOOT Test") from "E:\WOFADK_Tests\X61_test2.wim"
to directory "D:\"
Creating files: 31000 of 57831 (53%) done
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Applying image 1 ("Windows 7 WIMBOOT Test") from "E:\WOFADK_Tests\X61_test2.wim"
to directory "D:\"
Creating files: 57831 of 57831 (100%) done
[WARNING] "D:\\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\NonCritical_x86_75b
11f60c67a23d08b6a59ab85bfd23d6f45b0b1_cab_07b0f314\Report.wer": Failed to compre
ss extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system cannot find mes
sage text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] "D:\\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\NonCritical_x86_f74
c622fd971a6513349e3af22655fffcb279f_cab_06c4f3fe\Report.wer": Failed to compress
extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system cannot find messa
ge text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] "D:\\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-i..libraries.resources_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_50108a601c8fd1e2\appcmd.exe.mui": Failed to com
press extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system cannot find
message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] "D:\\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-i..libraries.resources_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_50108a601c8fd1e2\iisreset.exe.mui": Failed to c
ompress extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system cannot fin
d message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] "D:\\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-i..libraries.resources_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_50108a601c8fd1e2\iisrstas.exe.mui": Failed to c
ompress extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system cannot fin
d message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] "D:\\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-i..libraries.resources_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_50108a601c8fd1e2\iissetup.exe.mui": Failed to c
ompress extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system cannot fin
d message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] "D:\\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-i..lprovider.resources_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_90915dfee6dde798\AppHostNavigators.dll.mui": Fa
iled to compress extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system c
annot find message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] "D:\\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-i..lprovider.resources_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_90915dfee6dde798\XPath.dll.mui": Failed to comp
ress extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system cannot find m
essage text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] "D:\\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-i..ce-server.resources_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_288c39308ca69336\CISVC.EXE.mui": Failed to comp
ress extracted file using System Compression (err=317): The system cannot find m
essage text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2
[WARNING] Suppressing further warnings about System Compression failures.
Extracting file data: 367 MiB of 4955 MiB (7%) done
There was a marginal difference in used space reported by right clicking on the running operating system's drive and selecting properties -
* 6.71 GB - when applied using a Windows 10 based WinPE
* 6.73 GB - when applied using a Windows 7 based WinPE
Any thought on what is causing these warnings? I have no idea whether this is a wofadk.sys issue or wimlib-imagex.
Regards,
Misty