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.
