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Add note about overlay not being production ready
Add a paragraph in cli.md mentioning that overlay is not a production
ready graphdriver.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Porterie <arnaud.porterie@docker.com>
(cherry picked from commit 67cb748e26)
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@@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ set `zfs.fsname` option as described in [Storage driver options](#storage-driver
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The `overlay` is a very fast union filesystem. It is now merged in the main
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Linux kernel as of [3.18.0](https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/26/137).
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Call `docker -d -s overlay` to use it.
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> **Note:**
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> As promising as `overlay` is, the feature is still quite young and should not
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> be used in production. Most notably, using `overlay` can cause excessive
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> inode consumption (especially as the number of images grows), as well as
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> being incompatible with the use of RPMs.
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> **Note:**
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> It is currently unsupported on `btrfs` or any Copy on Write filesystem
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> and should only be used over `ext4` partitions.
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