kubernetes: Docker failed to create container on windows nodes: Failed to unmarshall layerchain json - invalid character '\\x00' looking for beginning of value"

What happened: Docker failed to create container on windows nodes with error message

Failed to unmarshall layerchain json - invalid character '\\x00' looking for beginning of value"

What you expected to happen:

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Not sure. This happened quite frequently in E2E tests.

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version): 1.14
• Cloud provider or hardware configuration: GCE
• OS (e.g: cat /etc/os-release): Windows 1809
• Kernel (e.g. uname -a):
• Install tools:
• Network plugin and version (if this is a network-related bug):
• Others:

Search result suggested that the file may be corrupted. Once a node ran into this issue for a certain image, it’d no longer be able to create containers using that image.

On the same node, I’ve found error messages (from windows even log) below:

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk4\DR125 during a paging operation.
Disk 4 has the same disk identifiers as one or more disks connected to the system. Go to Microsoft's support website (http://support.microsoft.com) and search for KB2983588 to resolve the issue.
The disk signature of disk 4 is equal to the disk signature of disk 1.

I think the device in the error message corresponds to the container, and the error message can be related to the problem, but I’m not sure.