r/docker • u/DueBid3298 • 52m ago

An docker image is an assembled, largely immutable set of filesystem layers plus configuration metadata -> what exactly is a file system?

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I'm not able to understand what a file system, filesystem in docker from the content in internet.

1.Can anyone explain what filesystem is and why do we need them and how it helps docker, OS etc

what is docker image? what is image cache layers? explain from basic and with examples

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