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Summary

  • Containers use a copy-on-write (COW) file system.

  • Containers use a thin runtime layer, which is ephemeral by default.

  • You can mount volumes and bind mounts to persist container data.

  • Some workloads, such as databases, might experience performance problems with the COW file system.

  • You can use Podman volumes to avoid using the COW file system.

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