ocfs2: ensure that dlm lockspace is created by kernel module
We encountered a bug from the customer, the user did a fsck.ocfs2 on the file system and exited unusually, the lockspace (with LVB size = 32) was left in the kernel space, next, the user mounted this file system, the kernel module did not create a new lockspace (LVB size = 64) via calling dlm_new_lockspace() function in mounting stage, just used the existing lockspace, created by the user space tool, this would lead the user was not able to mount this file system from the other nodes, with the error message like: dlm: 032F5......: config mismatch: 64,0 nodeid 177127961: 32,0 (mount.ocfs2,26981,46):ocfs2_dlm_init:2995 ERROR: status = -71 ocfs2_mount_volume:1881 ERROR: status = -71 ocfs2_fill_super:1236 ERROR: status = -71 The user found it very difficult to find the root cause, then, we brought out this patch to relieve such problem. First, we add one more flag in calling dlm_new_lockspace() function, to make sure the lockspace is crea...
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