Starting docker fails with the error "devmapper: Error while creating filesystem xfs on device docker exit status 1"
Issue
- docker daemon fails to start on a fresh install or after setting up new docker pool storage
- Logs show the error: "devmapper: Error while creating filesystem xfs on device docker exit status 1"
- docker daemon reports: "Error starting daemon: error initializing graphdriver: exit status 1"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic
- OpenShift (OCP) 3.x
- docker 1.1x
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