On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:56 AM Santosh Sivaraj <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]>
>
> Currently create-namespace creates two namespaces with the '-f' option
> even without the greedy flag. This behavior got introduced by
> c75f7236d. The earlier behaviour was to create one namespace even with
> the '-f' flag. The earlier behavior:
>
> $ sudo ./ndctl/ndctl create-namespace -s 16M -f
> [sudo] password for santosh:
> {
>   "dev":"namespace1.14",
>   "mode":"fsdax",
>   "map":"dev",
>   "size":"14.00 MiB (14.68 MB)",
>   "uuid":"03f6b921-7684-4736-b2be-87f021996e52",
>   "sector_size":512,
>   "align":65536,
>   "blockdev":"pmem1.14"
> }
>
> After greedy option was introduced:
>
> $ sudo ./ndctl/ndctl create-namespace -s 16M -f
> {
>   "dev":"namespace1.8",
>   "mode":"fsdax",
>   "map":"dev",
>   "size":"14.00 MiB (14.68 MB)",
>   "uuid":"1a9d6610-558b-454e-8b95-76c6201798cb",
>   "sector_size":512,
>   "align":65536,
>   "blockdev":"pmem1.8"
> }
> {
>   "dev":"namespace0.3",
>   "mode":"fsdax",
>   "map":"dev",
>   "size":"14.00 MiB (14.68 MB)",
>   "uuid":"eed9d28b-69a2-4c7c-9503-24e8aee87b1e",
>   "sector_size":512,
>   "align":65536,
>   "blockdev":"pmem0.3"
> }
>
> If no region or '-c' flag is specified bail out if the creation was 
> successful.
>
> Fixes: c75f7236d (ndctl/namespace: add a --continue option to create 
> namespaces greedily)
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Sivaraj <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]>
> ---
>  ndctl/namespace.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/ndctl/namespace.c b/ndctl/namespace.c
> index 7fb0007..8098456 100644
> --- a/ndctl/namespace.c
> +++ b/ndctl/namespace.c
> @@ -1392,6 +1392,8 @@ static int do_xaction_namespace(const char *namespace,
>                                 if (force) {
>                                         if (rc)
>                                                 saved_rc = rc;
> +                                       else if (!param.region)
> +                                                       return rc;

I see the bug, but the fix looks wrong to me. --force has no meaning
in this case. I'd rather just clean-up --force to be ignored when
neither "-c" nor "-e" are specified.
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