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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 10:17:31 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 10:09:37AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hmm, so the driver has 2 modes "labeled" and "label-less", in the
> labeled mode it waits for an explicit:
> 
>     ndctl create-namespace
> 
> ...to provision region capacity into a namespace. In label-less mode
> it just assumes that the boundaries of the region are the boundaries
> of the namespace. In this case it looks like the driver found a label
> index block with no namespaces defined so it's waiting for one to be
> created. Are you saying that the only thing you changed from a working
> config with defined namespace to this one was a kernel change? I.e.
> the content of those memory-backend files has not changed?

Well, the config change is the only thing I though of as relevant.
The content of those files actually changes all the time, as I also
use them as the backing store for my qemu configs that use block
devices.  E.g. the previous run they did show up as NVMe devices.