When you upgrade to docker-1.10, your container images json data gets rewritten with UUID based on the content in the images. This will take a while, depending on the number and size of images. One potential problem is rollback.
When I updated a docker to docker-1.10 (In devel, Rawhide) my images get updated. Now if I rollback to docker-1.9 I notice my containers are disappearing. docker ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAME dc8ba4c69222 fedora "bash" 13 minutes ago Exited (0) 13 minutes ago fervent_rosalind 1e1a4d59c375 fedora "bash" 3 hours ago Exited (0) 3 hours ago amazing_yonath Rollback to docker-1.9 [root@dhcp-10-19-62-196 docker]# docker ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES Nothing. I create a container. (Using docker-1.9 I update to docker-1.10 again docker ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 6073b1c7c08f fedora "bash" 11 minutes ago Exited (0) 11 minutes ago boring_shockley dc8ba4c69222 fedora "bash" 13 minutes ago Exited (0) 13 minutes ago fervent_rosalind 1e1a4d59c375 fedora "bash" 3 hours ago Exited (0) 3 hours ago amazing_yonath Rollback to docker-1.9 [root@dhcp-10-19-62-196 docker]# docker ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 6073b1c7c08f fedora "bash" 13 minutes ago Exited (0) 13 minutes ago boring_shockley Might be a bug, but this is something we need to understand in order to figure out what happens if a atomic host upgrades and rolls back.