What is Storage Driver and types of Storage Driver? Explained with Images.

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Docker uses storage drivers to store image layers, and to store data in the writable layer of a container. The containerā€™s writable layer does not persist after the container is deleted, but is suitable for storing ephemeral data that is generated at runtime. Storage drivers are optimized for space efficiency, but (depending on the storage driver) write speeds are lower than native file system performance, especially for storage drivers that a use copy-on-write filesystem