[Bug 3817] InstallShield very slow when copying many small files

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3817

--- Comment #23 from Scott Ritchie   2008-01-18 03:13:35 ---
"The vfat / fat32 driver does already have a function for find a filename
case-insensitively and Wine already uses it. It doesn't help the people that
are
installing this app on other filesystems."

When does Wine determine to do this?  If I drag a folder from my
~/.wine/drive_c directory to a vfat filesystem and then create a symlink to it,
is Wine smart enough to use that?

I tried doing exactly this, and performance is still really slow for the
application (System Shock 2).  I'm not 100% certain the load time is due to
this issue, but I do know that System Shock 2 works by loading up some files
from one folder and then looking for newer ones with the same
(case-insensitive) name in the main folder to use instead as newer
replacements.