This backend uses the overlayfs union filesystem for containers
plus hard link file sharing for images.
Each container/image can have a "root" subdirectory which is a plain
filesystem hierarchy, or they can use overlayfs.
If they use overlayfs there is a "upper" directory and a "lower-id"
file, as well as "merged" and "work" directories. The "upper"
directory has the upper layer of the overlay, and "lower-id" contains
the id of the parent whose "root" directory shall be used as the lower
layer in the overlay. The overlay itself is mounted in the "merged"
directory, and the "work" dir is needed for overlayfs to work.
When a overlay layer is created there are two cases, either the
parent has a "root" dir, then we start out with a empty "upper"
directory overlaid on the parents root. This is typically the
case with the init layer of a container which is based on an image.
If there is no "root" in the parent, we inherit the lower-id from
the parent and start by making a copy if the parents "upper" dir.
This is typically the case for a container layer which copies
its parent -init upper layer.
Additionally we also have a custom implementation of ApplyLayer
which makes a recursive copy of the parent "root" layer using
hardlinks to share file data, and then applies the layer on top
of that. This means all chile images share file (but not directory)
data with the parent.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> (github: alexlarsson)
Now that the archive package does not depend on any docker-specific
packages, only those in pkg and vendor, it can be safely moved into pkg.
Signed-off-by: Rafe Colton <rafael.colton@gmail.com>
Some graphdrivers are Differs and type assertions are made
in various places throughout the project. Differ offers some
convenience in generating/applying diffs of filesystem layers
but for most graphdrivers another code path is taken.
This patch brings all of the logic related to filesystem
diffs in one place, and simplifies the implementation of some
common types like Image, Daemon, and Container.
Signed-off-by: Josh Hawn <josh.hawn@docker.com>
If this is at the root directory for the daemon you could unmount
somones filesystem when you stop docker and this is actually only needed
for the palces that the graph drivers mount the container's root
filesystems.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Michael Crosby <michael@crosbymichael.com> (github: crosbymichael)
There are two cases where we can't use a graphdriver:
1) the graphdriver itself isn't supported by the system
2) the graphdriver is supported by some configuration/prerequisites are
missing
This introduces a new error for the 2) case and uses it when trying to
run docker with btrfs backend on a non-btrfs filesystem.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Johannes 'fish' Ziemke <github@freigeist.org> (github: discordianfish)
If a graphdriver fails initialization due to ErrNotSupported we ignore
that and keep trying the next. But if some driver has a different
error (for instance if you specified an unknown option for it) we fail
the daemon startup, printing the error, rather than falling back to an
unexected driver (typically vfs) which may not match what you have run
earlier.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> (github: alexlarsson)
This has every container using the docker daemon's pid for the processes
label so it does not work correctly.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Michael Crosby <michael@crosbymichael.com> (github: crosbymichael)
Lénaïc Huard