This interface matches the device-mapper implementation (DeviceSetDM)
but is free from any dependencies. This allows core docker code
to refer to a DeviceSet without having an explicit dependency on
the devmapper package.
This is important, because the devmapper package has external
dependencies which are not wanted in the docker client app, as it
needs to run with minimal dependencies in the docker image.
In some builds the main docker binary is not statically linked,
and as such not usable in as the .dockerinit binary, for those
cases we look for a separately shipped docker-init binary and
use that instead.
This is a module that uses the device-mapper create CoW snapshots
You instantiate a DeviceSetDM object on a specified root (/var/lib/docker),
and it will create a subdirectory there called "loopback". It will
contain two sparse files which are loopback mounted into
a thin-pool device-mapper device called "docker-pool".
We then create a base snapshot in the pool with an empty filesystem
which can be used as a base for docker snapshots. It also keeps track
of the mapping between docker image ids and the snapshots in the pool.
Typical use of is something like (without error checking):
devices = NewDeviceSetDM("/var/lib/docker")
devices.AddDevice(imageId, "") // "" is the base image id
devices.MountDevice(imageId, "/mnt/image")
... extract base image to /mnt/image
devices.AddDevice(containerId, imageId)
devices.MountDevice(containerId, "/mnt/container")
... start container at /mnt/container
* added link to edit on GitHub
* Changed image source on homepage
* Made some changes to the structure, added the ability to have l3 navigation. Added warning, note and other styles.
* Fixed an image link, removed the .. :content: links because they were quicky and didn't look good, added pagelinks to current page of other versions.
* Moved the remote client api's to their own doc
add AutoRemove to HostConfig
add -rm flag to docker run
add TestRunAutoRemove to test -rm
docs: add -rm to commandline/command/run
add hostConfig to container monitor
make monitor destroy the container via -rm
This adds support for automatically removing a container after it
exits. The removal of the container is handled on the server side.
We're officially a first-class Gentoo citizen now, which is very exciting. Many thanks to @gregkh for helping us get here.
I started just adapting sections of language in this document, and realized several bits needed to just be rewritten entirely to be more clear.
