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by jpetazzo 4652 days ago
Each container will have a "fixed-size filesystem", but:

- it will be thinly provisioned (i.e. it can be 10G or 100G but still use only a few MB on disk if it's essentially empty, like a sparse file), - it can be grown easily.

On the one hand, it's a bit less convenient because you have to care about the disk usage.

On the other hand, it's great because a single container can't eat up all your precious disk space (and if you want to run some public/semi-public stuff that's quasi mandatory).

If you want to check the current code, you can look here: https://github.com/alexlarsson/docker/tree/device-mapper3