Solved with wimlib - Unsupported operation Windows Overlay Filter driver (wof.sys).

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  1. LiteOS

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    #1 LiteOS, Feb 15, 2024
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    #2 acer-5100, Feb 15, 2024
    don't do that.

    If you care about size of the installed OS, first compress it using the old NTFS compression.
    Then capture the image in a WIM.

    Then restore/deploy the image using wimlib-imagex apply with the -compact=LZX switch.

    Compact OS alone is stupid as MS implemented it, at least the 30 Y/O NTFS compression mitigates its drawbacks (while retaining most of its strengths).
     
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    #3 LiteOS, Feb 15, 2024 (OP)
    i want it to take less space on ramdisk drive
    i dont care about performance
     
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    #4 acer-5100, Feb 15, 2024

    Who mentioned performance? (which anyway comes as a bonus usually)