September 28, 20232 yr Author 1 hour ago, thunderclap said: Will converting dockers to folders from images speed up their load time? Right now I have 15-20 docker containers on an SSD and it takes a good 10 min for them all to load. You mean to start? What is your RAM and CPU?
September 28, 20232 yr 22 minutes ago, NLS said: You mean to start? What is your RAM and CPU? I have an Intel Core i7-9700K with 32GB RAM.
October 6, 20232 yr Author On 9/28/2023 at 7:00 PM, thunderclap said: I have an Intel Core i7-9700K with 32GB RAM. Then 10 minutes is definitely too much.
December 16, 20232 yr Community Expert 2 hours ago, sstretchh said: just curious, why would want to do this, switch to folders vs an image ? I think some people do it because they don't know why their docker.img is growing, maybe due to not really understanding path mapping. There may be some other more valid reasons I'm not aware of.
February 20, 20242 yr On 3/15/2021 at 4:31 AM, Squid said: Apps - Previous Apps. Check off what you want. No need to do them individually This didn't work for me. Previous Apps only had 5 containers listed, but I had around 20 of them. I had to recreate them one by one using the "Select a template" dropdown. At least the previous templates had all my customizations intact.
March 17, 20242 yr I'm thinking of doing this. Why does the system suggest path: `/mnt/user/system/docker/docker/` ? When the first `docker` is empty (except for the to-be defunct .img file). Why not just go with `/mnt/user/system/docker/` ? Edited March 17, 20242 yr by Derek_
March 17, 20242 yr Author 9 hours ago, Derek_ said: I'm thinking of doing this. Why does the system suggest path: `/mnt/user/system/docker/docker/` ? When the first `docker` is empty (except for the to-be defunct .img file). Why not just go with `/mnt/user/system/docker/` ? It is just a "follow" on that being a file. I use the path you propose for more than a year, so you do it also, don't worry about it.
March 18, 20242 yr 13 hours ago, trurl said: Why? My Dockers weren't updating, the last thing on my list was deleting the .img and starting fresh. As i was going to do that anyway, i thought i might do the folder thing. A friend of mine said he'd had much better reliability with the folder than the file when he switched.
March 18, 20242 yr Community Expert On 12/16/2023 at 4:39 PM, trurl said: I think some people do it because they don't know why their docker.img is growing, maybe due to not really understanding path mapping. There may be some other more valid reasons I'm not aware of. 7 hours ago, Derek_ said: My Dockers weren't updating Are they still working, just not updating? Might be better to post your diagnostics
March 29, 20242 yr On 3/18/2024 at 11:24 PM, trurl said: Are they still working, just not updating? Might be better to post your diagnostics Yeah, they were still working. I already did the delete trick. Everything has been dandy since. One thing i remember is that my .img was less than 50% full. So that wasn't an issue. Edited March 29, 20242 yr by Derek_
July 6, 20242 yr Is anyone able to describe the contents of the docker directory after the switch to folder mode? drwx--x--- 1 root root 20 Jul 6 10:02 btrfs/ drwx--x--x 1 root root 132 Jul 6 10:01 buildkit/ drwx--x--x 1 root root 12 Jul 6 10:01 containerd/ drwx--x--- 1 root root 384 Jul 6 10:19 containers/ drwx------ 1 root root 10 Jul 6 10:01 image/ drwxr-x--- 1 root root 10 Jul 6 10:01 network/ drwx------ 1 root root 20 Jul 6 10:01 plugins/ drwx------ 1 root root 0 Jul 6 10:17 runtimes/ drwx------ 1 root root 0 Jul 6 10:01 swarm/ drwx------ 1 root root 0 Jul 6 10:19 tmp/ drwx------ 1 root root 0 Jul 6 10:01 trust/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12 Jul 6 10:11 unraid/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Jul 6 10:19 unraid-autostart -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 767 Jul 6 10:19 unraid-update-status.json drwx-----x 1 root root 184 Jul 6 10:19 volumes/ cheers. Also curious to know why the 40gb docker.img file becomes a 70gb folder Edited July 6, 20242 yr by Derek_
December 20, 20241 yr Is a benefit of this being able to snapshot and rollback individual docker containers? Let's say an update breaks something. If my cache has ZFS snapshots, can I roll back the offending docker's dataset?
October 8, 2025Oct 8 I am also in the process of doing this - Main reason for me is that I've now had to enlarge my Docker.img size for a 3rd time - No I do not have misconfigured paths, I just have nearly 80 containers and some are just very large, IPEX-LLM for instance.I also have some containers that are a little large and now I will easily be able to inspect it.
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