From what I have found, these are the available storage drivers: Union File Systems - aufs and overlayfs I’m currently using overlayfs and it seems to work ok but I’m not sure about it as I’ve read that it can use too many inodes which can cause problems. Snapshot Enabled File System - btrfs …

To answer the question I asked about a year ago, the best storage backend driver appears to be overlay2 which was added in docker 1.12 and according to the docker page on overlay vs. overlay2 , the “overlay2 driver addresses” the “known limitations with inode exhaustion and commit performance” of the…

[image] sam: aufs or overlay if you are feeling adventurous, avoid all others. Ok. I had thought device-mapper might only be an issue with loopback images but it is ok to use with raw block devlices. It seems that is not the main issue with the device-mapper backend. At the moment I use over…

I have personally had lots of luck with overlay, perf is better than aufs. You got to watch out for inode counts though.

Never, ever use device mapper. That is a one way ticket to corruption town, sooner or later. It is buggy as hell and has been for a year despite Red Hat saying “it works now” over and over.

[image] codinghorror: Never, ever use device mapper. That is a one way ticket to corruption town, sooner or later. It is buggy as hell and has been for a year despite Red Hat saying “it works now” over and over. Interesting, in theory device-mapper seems like a good option. If in practice it…

I don’t know but you can ask the support customer whose corrupted install on Centos (and thus devicemapper) we just had to recover via a backup…

For some context see: https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/12354#issuecomment-121958324 and @SamSaffron I think we have made lot of progress on improving devicemapper graph driver. Lot of issues are because of static binary and I think many of the issues are configuration issues. Based on co…

[image] sam: For some context see: graphdriver: promote overlay driver to first by vbatts · Pull Request #12354 · moby/moby · GitHub That is helpful information. [image] jd2066: If in practice it just causes problems then I wonder why it’s still an available option in Docker and prefer…

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aufs or overlay if you are feeling adventurous, avoid all others.

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