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

[Benoit Panizzon]

Package: ocfs2-tools
Version: 1.8.5-7
Severity: normal
Tags: ipv6

Dear Maintainer,

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.

-Benoît-

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_CH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH:de (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ocfs2-tools depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.71
ii  libaio1                0.3.112-3
ii  libc6                  2.28-10
ii  libcmap4               3.0.1-2+deb10u1
ii  libcom-err2            1.44.5-1+deb10u3
ii  libdlm3                4.0.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii  libncurses6            6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
ii  libreadline7           7.0-5
ii  libtinfo6              6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
ii  libuuid1               2.33.1-0.1
ii  lsb-base               10.2019051400
ii  psmisc                 23.2-1

ocfs2-tools recommends no packages.

ocfs2-tools suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* ocfs2-tools/heartbeat_threshold: 31
* ocfs2-tools/reconnect_delay: 2000
* ocfs2-tools/clustername: ocfs2cluster0
* ocfs2-tools/keepalive_delay: 2000
* ocfs2-tools/idle_timeout: 30000
* ocfs2-tools/init: true