B Starting with this release, new installations use the Docker containerd snapshotter by default, which provides improved performance and stability. Existing users can migrate to the new storage driver using the following command:
ha docker migrate-storage-driver
Sorry for the silly question but, should I do this?
I can’t really answer your specific question, whether you should do it, but I’ve done just run it on my HAOS system, with no negative consequences (or noticeable improvements). Took about 10 minutes.
Same question here, during the update to 17.1 from 16.1. system remained stuck for 30 minutes, so I have powered VM manualy off and on again (I am using Virtualbox) and HAOS started without any issues stating I have version 17.1. But don’t know if I need to run that command to migrate docker