When I use POST .../blocks to write segmentation into a labelmap instance, DVID is supposed to generate the low-scale pyramid levels if I supply ?downres=true. It looks like there is a race condition that prevents it from writing correctly, unless the shape of the chunks is carefully chosen. For instance, writing chunks that were of shape (2048, 64, 64) didn't work correctly (some low-res blocks remained blank), but writing chunks of (256, 256, 256) seemed to work.

In lieu of a fix, perhaps some guidance in the documentation for POST .../blocks would help.