ocfs2: local mounts

This allows users to format an ocfs2 file system with a special flag,
OCFS2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_LOCAL_MOUNT. When the file system sees this flag, it
will not use any cluster services, nor will it require a cluster
configuration, thus acting like a 'local' file system.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
index 21db45ddf144..9637039c2633 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
@@ -587,9 +587,11 @@ static int ocfs2_mknod_locked(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
         }
 
         ocfs2_inode_set_new(osb, inode);
-        status = ocfs2_create_new_inode_locks(inode);
-        if (status < 0)
-                mlog_errno(status);
+        if (!ocfs2_mount_local(osb)) {
+                status = ocfs2_create_new_inode_locks(inode);
+                if (status < 0)
+                        mlog_errno(status);
+        }
 
         status = 0; /* error in ocfs2_create_new_inode_locks is not
                      * critical */