From 434d7f5f3510295930e638d0c57d6c7787b7a60d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastiaan van Stijn Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:31:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate AuFS storage driver The `aufs` storage driver is deprecated in favor of `overlay2`, and will be removed in a future release. Users of the `aufs` storage driver are recommended to migrate to a different storage driver, such as `overlay2`, which is now the default storage driver. The `aufs` storage driver facilitates running Docker on distros that have no support for OverlayFS, such as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which originally shipped with a 3.14 kernel. Now that Ubuntu 14.04 is no longer a supported distro for Docker, and `overlay2` is available to all supported distros (as they are either on kernel 4.x, or have support for multiple lowerdirs backported), there is no reason to continue maintenance of the `aufs` storage driver. Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn (cherry picked from commit f1a93a8c0b0df6a7bf0afeef84c95fc3dcdaccb0) Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn --- docs/deprecated.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/deprecated.md b/docs/deprecated.md index 1ca390a897b9..1c34bc938181 100644 --- a/docs/deprecated.md +++ b/docs/deprecated.md @@ -50,6 +50,24 @@ Now that support for `overlay2` is added to all supported distros (as they are either on kernel 4.x, or have support for multiple lowerdirs backported), there is no reason to continue maintenance of the `devicemapper` storage driver. +### AuFS storage driver + +**Deprecated in Release: v18.09.0** + +The `aufs` storage driver is deprecated in favor of `overlay2`, and will +be removed in a future release. Users of the `aufs` storage driver are +recommended to migrate to a different storage driver, such as `overlay2`, which +is now the default storage driver. + +The `aufs` storage driver facilitates running Docker on distros that have no +support for OverlayFS, such as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which originally shipped with +a 3.14 kernel. + +Now that Ubuntu 14.04 is no longer a supported distro for Docker, and `overlay2` +is available to all supported distros (as they are either on kernel 4.x, or have +support for multiple lowerdirs backported), there is no reason to continue +maintenance of the `aufs` storage driver. + ### Reserved namespaces in engine labels **Deprecated in Release: v18.06.0**