whats the best practice ? Creating the repo in the same bucket my data is in ?

let me try that

so it works when the data is in the repo. maybe i wrapped the concept wrong, will read the arch doc agian, thanks @Eden Ohana

missed to read this

When creating a lakeFS repository, you assign it with a storage namespace. The repository's storage namespace is a location in the underlying storage where data for this repository will be stored.