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by cpuguy83 3513 days ago
Yes. The filesystem in the container is a real filesystem backed by the disk.

How this happens is dependent on the storage driver used. The `aufs` driver (default when available), as well as `overlay(2)` and `vfs` drivers just sit on top of the existing filesystem at `/var/lib/docker` (or the defined docker root). BTRFS, ZFS, and devicemapper must be pre-configured to even use and depends on how you configure these, but still generally would be on an actual disk.