[Gluster-devel] Review request for Gluster IPv6 bugfix (Bug 1117886)

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 09/10/2015 06:30 AM, nithin dabilpuram wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> Can this code be reviewed ? It is related to transport inet6
> 
> http://review.gluster.org/#/c/11988/
I've reviewed it and logged some comments.

~Atin
> 
> thanks
> Nithin
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Nithin Kumar Dabilpuram
> <nithind1988 at yahoo.in <mailto:nithind1988 at yahoo.in>> wrote:
> 
>     Sure Richard.
>      
>     -Nithin
> 
> 
> 
>     On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 1:23 AM, Richard Wareing <rwareing at fb.com
>     <mailto:rwareing at fb.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Hey Nithin,
> 
>     We have IPv6 going as well (v3.4.x & v3.6.x), so I might be able to
>     help out here and perhaps combine our efforts.  We did something
>     similar here, however we also tackled the NFS side of the house,
>     which required a bunch of changes due to how port registration w/
>     portmapper changed in IPv6 vs IPv4.  You effectively have to use
>     "libtirpc" to do all the port registrations with IPv6.
> 
>     We can offer up our patches for this work and hopefully things can
>     be combined such that end-users can simply do "vol set <volume>
>     transport-address-family <inet|inet6>" and voila they have whatever
>     support they desire.
> 
>     I'll see if we can get this posted to bug 1117886 this week.
> 
>     Richard
> 
> 
> 
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>     [gluster-devel-bounces at gluster.org
>     <mailto:gluster-devel-bounces at gluster.org>] on behalf of Nithin
>     Kumar Dabilpuram [nithind1988 at yahoo.in <mailto:nithind1988 at yahoo.in>]
>     *Sent:* Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:12 PM
>     *To:* gluster-devel at gluster.org <mailto:gluster-devel at gluster.org>
>     *Subject:* [Gluster-devel] Gluster IPv6 bugfixes (Bug 1117886)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Hi<mailto:ndevos at redhat.com>,
> 
>     Can I contribute to this bug fix ? I've worked on Gluster IPv6
>     functionality bugs in 3.3.2 in my past organization and was able to
>     successfully bring up gluster on IPv6 link local addresses as well.
> 
>     Please find my work in progress patch. I'll raise gerrit review once
>     testing is done. I was successfully able to create volumes with 3
>     peers and add bricks. I'll continue testing other basic
>     functionality and see what needs to be modified. Any other suggestions ?
> 
>     Brief info about the patch:
>     Here I'm trying to use "transport.address-family" option in
>     /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol file and then propagate the same to
>     server and client vol files and their translators.
> 
>     In this way when user mentions "transport.address-family inet6" in
>     its glusterd.vol file, all glusterd servers open AF_INET6 sockets
>     and then the same information is stored in glusterd_volinfo and used
>     when generating vol config files.
>      
>     -thanks
>     Nithin
> 
> 
> 
> 
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