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by rantwasp 2227 days ago
this is the file system not docker itself. you can get the overlay behavior without any docker
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lmuench 2227 days ago
Can you point me to some online resources? I'd like to learn more about this.
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throwaway8941 2227 days ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/324291/

https://lwn.net/Articles/325369/

https://lwn.net/Articles/327738/

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rantwasp 2227 days ago
nice. thank you
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rantwasp 2227 days ago
start with: https://windsock.io/the-overlay-filesystem/

after that read more about overlay, overlay fs, for historical reasons aufs.

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mehrdadn 2227 days ago
I'm not sure if this is what the parent is referring to but there are overlayfs and unionfs in Ubuntu for example.
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