Clarify statement about compressed layer storage in containerd image store #24476
Description
Is this a docs issue?
- My issue is about the documentation content or website
Type of issue
Information is incorrect
Description
On this page:
https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/containerd/
there is the statement: “each image stores its own compressed version of shared layers”.
This seems misleading. containerd stores compressed layers in a content-addressable store and deduplicates them by digest, so identical blobs are only stored once and shared across images.
Increased disk usage can still occur when similar layers have different digests (e.g., due to rebuilds or recompression), but this is different from each image storing its own copy.
Could this wording be clarified?
Thanks!
Location
https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/containerd/#disk-space-usage
Suggestion
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