That'd be Awesome. :)

+ Justin


On 15 Jun 2015, at 20:53, Richard Wareing <[email protected]> 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
> 
> 
> 
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] 
> on behalf of Nithin Kumar Dabilpuram [[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:12 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Gluster-devel] Gluster IPv6 bugfixes (Bug 1117886)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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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