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engine: remove Vale-flagged meta-commentary in storage driver docs
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> won't reflect how your system stores images. For operational guidance, see
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> [containerd image store](../containerd.md).
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To use storage drivers effectively, it's important to know how Docker builds and
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To use storage drivers effectively, you need to know how Docker builds and
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stores images, and how these images are used by containers. You can use this
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information to make informed choices about the best way to persist data from
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your applications and avoid performance problems along the way.
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---
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description: Learn how to optimize your use of AUFS driver.
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keywords: 'container, storage, driver, AUFS '
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keywords: "container, storage, driver, AUFS "
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title: AUFS storage driver
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sitemap: false
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aliases:
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> before upgrading to Docker Engine v24.0. Read the [Docker storage drivers](select-storage-driver.md)
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> page for supported storage drivers.
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AUFS is a *union filesystem*. The `aufs` storage driver was previously the default
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AUFS is a _union filesystem_. The `aufs` storage driver was previously the default
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storage driver used for managing images and layers on Docker for Ubuntu, and for
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Debian versions prior to Stretch. If your Linux kernel is version 4.0 or higher,
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and you use Docker Engine - Community, consider using the newer
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ potential performance advantages over the `aufs` storage driver.
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- For Docker Engine - Community, AUFS is supported on Ubuntu, and on Debian versions prior to
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Stretch.
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- If you use Ubuntu, you need to add the AUFS module to the kernel. If you do
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not install these packages, you need to use `overlay2`.
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not install these packages, you need to use `overlay2`.
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- AUFS cannot use the following backing filesystems: `aufs`, `btrfs`, or
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`ecryptfs`. This means that the filesystem which contains
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`/var/lib/docker/aufs` cannot be one of these filesystem types.
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## How the `aufs` storage driver works
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AUFS is a *union filesystem*, which means that it layers multiple directories on
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AUFS is a _union filesystem_, which means that it layers multiple directories on
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a single Linux host and presents them as a single directory. These directories
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are called _branches_ in AUFS terminology, and _layers_ in Docker terminology.
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The diagram below shows a Docker container based on the `ubuntu:latest` image.
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Each image layer, and the container layer, are represented on the Docker host as
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subdirectories within `/var/lib/docker/`. The union mount provides the unified
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following ways:
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- `diff/`: Differences introduced in the writable container layer, such as new
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or modified files.
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or modified files.
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- `layers/`: Metadata about the writable container layer's parent layers.
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- `mnt/`: A mount point for each running container's unified filesystem, exactly
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as it appears from within the container.
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- **Writing to a file for the first time**: The first time a container writes
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to an existing file, that file does not exist in the container (`upperdir`).
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The `aufs` driver performs a *copy_up* operation to copy the file from the
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The `aufs` driver performs a _copy_up_ operation to copy the file from the
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image layer where it exists to the writable container layer. The container
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then writes the changes to the new copy of the file in the container layer.
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very large and only a small part of it is being modified. This can have a
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noticeable impact on container write performance. AUFS can suffer
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noticeable latencies when searching for files in images with many layers.
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However, it is worth noting that the copy_up operation only occurs the first
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time a given file is written to. Subsequent writes to the same file operate
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against the copy of the file already copied up to the container.
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However, the copy_up operation only occurs the first time a given file is
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written to. Subsequent writes to the same file operate against the copy of
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the file already copied up to the container.
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- **Deleting files and directories**:
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- When a _file_ is deleted within a container, a *whiteout* file is created
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- When a _file_ is deleted within a container, a _whiteout_ file is created
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in the container layer. The version of the file in the image layer is not
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deleted (because the image layers are read-only). However, the whiteout
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file prevents it from being available to the container.
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