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overlayfs: add --storage-driver doc
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Signed-off-by: Vincent Batts <[email protected]>
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vbatts committed Nov 20, 2014
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### Daemon storage-driver option

The Docker daemon has support for three different image layer storage drivers: `aufs`,
`devicemapper`, and `btrfs`.
`devicemapper`, `btrfs` and `overlayfs`.

The `aufs` driver is the oldest, but is based on a Linux kernel patch-set that
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
share executable memory between devices. Use `docker -d -s btrfs -g /mnt/btrfs_partition`.

The `overlayfs` is a very fast union filesystem. It is now merged in the main
Linux kernel as of [3.18.0](https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/26/137).
Call `docker -d -s overlayfs` to use it.

### Docker exec-driver option

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