How does DISM handle duplicate and/or older drivers (re: install.wim)?

[10Fan]

I am trying to collect drivers to cover all the usual stuff like chipset, LAN and so on, to be integrated into install.wim on Windows 7 x64.

I have already updated the ISO with 7updater so a lot of drivers are added (from my current system's DriverStore) and it's had every hotfix integrated.

I have read the Microsoft page about DISM, but my questions are a bit specific, I will just pose them as Y/N questions to save wasting anyone's time!

1. When a driver is added to install.wim by DISM, what happens if a newer (or signed vs unsigned) driver was previously integrated, is the driver you're trying to add just ignored and the newer/better driver stays retained in the wim?

2. What happens when you have a huge folder of drivers and you have like three drivers that are all duplicates? If that exact driver exists in the install.wim file already, does DISM know that and it just doesn't add the duplicate(s)?

3. If you have got duplicate drivers to be added, but the driver doesn't exist in the install.wim file, what happens then? Does only one copy of the driver get added to the wim file?

I guess if DISM is clever, it will not add duplicate drivers, regardless of if it already exists in the install.wim file, or if you are trying to add drivers from which you have duplicates.

Cheers guys.

 

[SIW2]

You can find out for yourself easily enough.

Mount boot.wim image 2 add a driver commit and unmount.

Then mount boot.wim image 2 again. Add the same driver.

Then have a look in windows\inf and windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository.

 

[iko22]

Is this of any help ?

... windows 7 stores each driver in its own custom subfolder in %WinDir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository
It uses the INF name, architecture, language and it then generates a custom hash number...here are some example driverstore folders of iastor.inf v9 and v10

\iastor.inf_amd64_neutral_05602dde0a28e7f4
\iastor.inf_amd64_neutral_f610710b4d5b0c20

Source: DISM\AIK - Drivers - duplicate files | msfn