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Merge pull request #211 from nicoroeser/fix-docs-wrt-storage-drivers
Rectify documentation about Docker storage driver
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Using require `Docker <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Docker>`_ and `FUSE
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<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace>`_. Docker must be
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configured to use the `devicemapper
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<https://docs.docker.com/storage/storagedriver/device-mapper-driver/>`_
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storage driver. This can be achieved with the following inside
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``/etc/docker/daemon.json``:
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<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace>`_.
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If you plan to use specific storage driver options (by passing
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``--storage-opt``), be aware that these are specific to the `configured Docker
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storage driver
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<https://docs.docker.com/storage/storagedriver/select-storage-driver/>`__. Refer
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to the Docker documentation about `storage drivers
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<https://docs.docker.com/storage/storagedriver/>`_ for more information.
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Particularly see the list of `options per storage driver
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<https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/dockerd/#options-per-storage-driver>`_.
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System-wide configuration of the storage driver used by Docker is done in
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``/etc/docker/daemon.json``. For example, to select the `devicemapper
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<https://docs.docker.com/storage/storagedriver/device-mapper-driver/>`_ storage
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driver, specify:
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