Description

The current nerdctl implementation sets a global default snapshotter (overlayfs), which overrides containerd's namespace-specific snapshotter configuration defined via namespace labels (ref). According to containerd's design, the default snapshotter for a namespace is resolved only when no snapshotter is explicitly specified.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Configure a containerd namespace (e.g., k8s.io) with a label containerd.io/snapshotter=devmapper.
2. Run nerdctl -n k8s.io run ... without specifying --snapshotter.
3. Observe that nerdctl still uses overlayfs instead of the namespace-configured devmapper.

Describe the results you received and expected

If no --snapshotter is provided, nerdctl should defer to containerd's resolution logic, honoring namespace-level defaults.

What version of nerdctl are you using?

v2.0.4

Are you using a variant of nerdctl? (e.g., Rancher Desktop)

None

Host information

No response