The STORAGE configuration file specifies all of the available container storage options for tools using shared container storage, but in a TOML format that can be more easily modified and versioned.
Default Copy On Write (COW) container storage driver. Valid drivers are "overlay", "vfs", "devmapper", "aufs", "btrfs", and "zfs". Some drivers (for example, "zfs", "btrfs", and "aufs") may not work if your kernel lacks support for the filesystem.
A common use case for this field is to provide a local storage directory when user home directories are NFS-mounted (podman does not support container storage over NFS).
Remap-UIDs/GIDs is the mapping from UIDs/GIDs as they should appear inside of a container, to the UIDs/GIDs outside of the container, and the length of the range of UIDs/GIDs. Additional mapped sets can be listed and will be heeded by libraries, but there are limits to the number of mappings which the kernel will allow when you later attempt to run a container.
These mappings tell the container engines to map UID 0 inside of the container to UID 1668442479 outside. UID 1 will be mapped to 1668442480. UID 2 will be mapped to 1668442481, etc, for the next 65533 UIDs in succession.
Remap-User/Group is a user name which can be used to look up one or more UID/GID ranges in the /etc/subuid or /etc/subgid file. Mappings are set up starting with an in-container ID of 0 and then a host-level ID taken from the lowest range that matches the specified name, and using the length of that range. Additional ranges are then assigned, using the ranges which specify the lowest host-level IDs first, to the lowest not-yet-mapped in-container ID, until all of the entries have been used for maps.
Root-auto-userns-user is a user name which can be used to look up one or more UID/GID ranges in the /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid file. These ranges will be partitioned to containers configured to create automatically a user namespace. Containers configured to automatically create a user namespace can still overlap with containers having an explicit mapping set. This setting is ignored when running as rootless.
Comma separated list of default options to be used to mount container images. Suggested value "nodev". Mount options are documented in the mount(8) man page.
Maximum size of a container image. This flag can be used to set quota on the size of container images. (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes))
Tells the thinpool driver the amount by which the thinpool needs to be grown. This is specified in terms of % of pool size. So a value of 20 means that when threshold is hit, pool will be grown by 20% of existing pool size. (default: 20%)
Tells the driver the thinpool extension threshold in terms of percentage of pool size. For example, if threshold is 60, that means when pool is 60% full, threshold has been hit. (default: 80%)
Specifies the min free space percent in a thin pool required for new device creation to succeed. Valid values are from 0% - 99%. Value 0% disables. (default: 10%)
Comma separated list of default options to be used to mount container images. Suggested value "nodev". Mount options are documented in the mount(8) man page.
Maximum size of a container image. This flag can be used to set quota on the size of container images. (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes))
Marks thinpool device for deferred deletion. If the thinpool is in use when the driver attempts to delete it, the driver will attempt to delete device every 30 seconds until successful, or when it restarts. Deferred deletion permanently deletes the device and all data stored in the device will be lost. (default: true).
Marks devicemapper block device for deferred removal. If the device is in use when its driver attempts to remove it, the driver tells the kernel to remove the device as soon as possible. Note this does not free up the disk space, use deferred deletion to fully remove the thinpool. (default: true).
Specifies the maximum number of retries XFS should attempt to complete IO when ENOSPC (no space) error is returned by underlying storage device. (default: 0, which means to try continuously.)
### STORAGE OPTIONS FOR OVERLAY TABLE
The `storage.options.overlay` table supports the following options:
**ignore_chown_errors** = "false"
ignore_chown_errors can be set to allow a non privileged user running with a single UID within a user namespace to run containers. The user can pull and use any image even those with multiple uids. Note multiple UIDs will be squashed down to the default uid in the container. These images will have no separation between the users in the container. (default: false)
Comma separated list of default options to be used to mount container images. Suggested value "nodev". Mount options are documented in the mount(8) man page.
**size**=""
Maximum size of a container image. This flag can be used to set quota on the size of container images. (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes))
### STORAGE OPTIONS FOR VFS TABLE
The `storage.options.vfs` table supports the following options:
**ignore_chown_errors** = "false"
ignore_chown_errors can be set to allow a non privileged user running with a single UID within a user namespace to run containers. The user can pull and use any image even those with multiple uids. Note multiple UIDs will be squashed down to the default uid in the container. These images will have no separation between the users in the container. (default: false)
### STORAGE OPTIONS FOR ZFS TABLE
The `storage.options.zfs` table supports the following options:
**fsname**=""
File System name for the zfs driver
**mountopt**=""
Comma separated list of default options to be used to mount container images. Suggested value "nodev". Mount options are documented in the mount(8) man page.
Maximum size of a container image. This flag can be used to set quota on the size of container images. (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes))
Tell SELinux about the new containers storage by setting up an equivalence record. This tells SELinux to label content under the new path, as if it was stored under `/var/lib/containers/storage`.
The semanage command above tells SELinux to setup the default labeling of `NEWSTORAGEPATH` to match `/var/lib/containers`. The `restorecon` command tells SELinux to apply the labels to the actual content.
Distributions often provide a `/usr/share/containers/storage.conf` file to define default storage configuration. Administrators can override this file by creating `/etc/containers/storage.conf` to specify their own configuration. The storage.conf file for rootless users is stored in the `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/containers/storage.conf` file. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is not set then the file `$HOME/.config/containers/storage.conf` is used.
