# What is the best docker storage backend to use on a VPS?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [18.Октябрь.2015 07:57:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-best-docker-storage-backend-to-use-on-a-vps/34646 "2015-10-18T07:57:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [29.Ноябрь.2016 14:24:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-best-docker-storage-backend-to-use-on-a-vps/34646/10 "2016-11-29T14:24:50Z")

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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](https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/storagedriver/selectadriver/#overlay-vs-overlay2), the “overlay2 driver addresses” the “known limitations with inode exhaustion and commit performance” of the “the overlay driver”.

It is however “only compatible with Linux kernel 4.0” but that isn’t a problem with my VPS as it uses a recent kernel (4.7 at the moment).

I didn’t really get around to working on my web site that much in the last year so the fact that it took about a year for this driver to come into existence didn’t end up being a problem.

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