Storage mount options. Docker supports the following types of storage mounts for storing data outside of the writable layer of the container: Volume mounts; Bind mounts; tmpfs mounts; …

Docker uses storage drivers to store image layers, and to store data in the writable layer of a container. The container's writable layer doesn't persist after the container is deleted, but is …

Docker is now using the overlay2 storage driver and has automatically created the overlay mount with the required lowerdir, upperdir, merged, and workdir constructs. Continue reading for …

Docker supports several storage drivers, using a pluggable architecture. The storage driver controls how images and containers are stored and managed on your Docker host. After you …

Volumes are a storage mechanism that provide the ability to persist data beyond the lifecycle of an individual container. Think of it like providing a shortcut or symlink from inside the container …

Volumes are persistent data stores for containers, created and managed by Docker. You can create a volume explicitly using the docker volume create command, or Docker can create a …

Docker's btrfs storage driver leverages many Btrfs features for image and container management. Among these features are block-level operations, thin provisioning, copy-on-write snapshots, …

Docker Desktop has built-in mechanisms that transparently handle bind mounts, allowing you to share native host filesystem paths with containers running in the virtual machine. Containers …

Daemon storage-driver. On Linux, the Docker daemon has support for several different image layer storage drivers: overlay2, fuse-overlayfs, btrfs, and zfs. overlay2 is the preferred storage …

See all storage options for each storage driver in the daemon reference documentation. Save and close the file, and restart Docker. How the zfs storage driver works. ZFS uses the following …