[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#975302: ocfs2-tools: Lacking IPv6 support

[Valentin Vidic]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:19:52AM +0100, Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Due to the depletion of ipv4 addresses, more and more services use ipv6 and NAT is wiedly in use.
> 
> I am also in a situation where there is a central storage reachable via iscsi and ipv6 and one
> node has an ipv4 NAT ip address and native ipv6 address.
> 
> It's not critical production situation, it's how I attempted to share a disk at the office with my homeoffice
> notebook behind NAT for easier data exchange :-) Yes there are other ways to do this. But OCFS2 sounded nice.
> 
> According to what I have read, the linux kernel ocfs2 implemenation is ipv6 enabled, but it looks like
> the configuration tools lack the knowledge of ipv6 addresses. I have not been able to add a node
> which is reachable via ipv6.
> 
> Please consider adding ipv6 support to the o2cb tools soon.

Thank you for the report. I'm not sure if this is a supported use case
for ocfs2 (it is most often used in local cluster setups), but I
forwarded the request to upstream authors for review:

https://github.com/markfasheh/ocfs2-tools/issues/49

-- 
Valentin