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remove aufs "default storage driver" statements #7433

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In many cases, aufs is no longer the default storage driver, so I just changed the examples to not mention the default. If you'd like it to actually state overlay2 is the default in most/some cases I can change that, but felt it was best left to the "Selecting a storage driver" page.

In many cases, aufs is no longer the default storage driver, so just change the example to not mention the default. If you'd like it to actually state overlay2 is the default in most/some cases I can change that.
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GordonTheTurtle commented Sep 27, 2018

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Thanks! LGTM

Off-topic, but looking at this 🤔 we should start deprecating the overlay driver; IIRC, with the Red Hat kernels now supporting overlay2, every supported distro that supports overlay now also supports overlay2, and I cannot think of any reason to use overlay instead of overlay2 for those.

@@ -292,8 +292,8 @@ layer. This means that the writable layer is as small as possible.

When an existing file in a container is modified, the storage driver performs a
copy-on-write operation. The specifics steps involved depend on the specific
storage driver. For the default `aufs` driver and the `overlay` and `overlay2`
drivers, the copy-on-write operation follows this rough sequence:
storage driver. For the `aufs`, `overlay` and `overlay2` drivers, the
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nit: the documentation uses Oxford comma, so there should be a comma before and overlay 😅

(just a nit, so I'm ok with merging as-is, if it's not updated)

@bermudezmt bermudezmt merged commit 0fc8bae into docker:master Sep 27, 2018
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