The OBD_FL_LOCAL_MASK support has not been used since commit e62f0a3c5b9 b=21980 cache ll_obdo_cache: Can't free all objects which predates Jira. With the landing of patch https://review.whamcloud.com/26463 LU-4017 quota: add project inherit attributes the handling of the "local" flags is broken and since it is unused it is better to be removed entirely.