[Ocfs2-devel] mount existent ocfs2 volume in the local mode without the extra DLM, pacemaker/corosync layers

[Gang He]

Hello Guys,

Usually, we create a ocfs2 cluster on the top DLM(pacemaker/corosync) with a shared volume.
but the customers complained they could not mount existent ocfs2 volume in the local mode without DLM/cluster envirnment in backup/restore scenario.
in this case, the customers want to mount this ocfs2 volume from one node without cluster aware way, sometimes the customers have stoped(uninstalled) the whole cluster before the backup/restore, they just want to access the data from the ocfs2 volume.
Then, I'd like to add a mount option, e.g. "nocluster" (I feel using "local" option is a little confused for the users, since we have a local mount volume concept).
If the users use "nocluster" option to mount a ocfs2 volume, the whole mount will not depend on the DLM/cluster related services. they
will mount the existent ocfs2 volume directly (like local mount) for avoiding setup the cluster stacks.
The code change is small with my preliminary investigation, the main affected places are mount.ocfs2/mounted.ocfs2 tools and mount process in the ocfs2 kernel modules. 

Any comments/suggestions? 


Thanks a lot
Gang