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overlayfs: add --storage-driver doc

Signed-off-by: Vincent Batts <vbatts@redhat.com>

Vincent Batts authored on 2014/11/19 13:22:32
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 ### Daemon storage-driver option
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 The Docker daemon has support for three different image layer storage drivers: `aufs`,
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-`devicemapper`, and `btrfs`.
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+`devicemapper`, `btrfs` and `overlayfs`.
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 The `aufs` driver is the oldest, but is based on a Linux kernel patch-set that
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 is unlikely to be merged into the main kernel. These are also known to cause some
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 The `btrfs` driver is very fast for `docker build` - but like `devicemapper` does not
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 share executable memory between devices. Use `docker -d -s btrfs -g /mnt/btrfs_partition`.
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+The `overlayfs` is a very fast union filesystem. It is now merged in the main
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+Linux kernel as of [3.18.0](https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/26/137).
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+Call `docker -d -s overlayfs` to use it.
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 ### Docker exec-driver option
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