Part II. Building, installing and configuring DRBD

Table of Contents

3. Installing pre-built DRBD binary packages
3.1. Packages supplied by LINBIT
3.2. Packages supplied by distribution vendors
3.2.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3.2.2. Debian GNU/Linux
3.2.3. CentOS
3.2.4. Ubuntu Linux
4. Building and installing DRBD from source
4.1. Downloading the DRBD sources
4.2. Checking out sources from the public DRBD source repository
4.3. Building DRBD from source
4.3.1. Checking build prerequisites
4.3.2. Preparing the kernel source tree
4.3.3. Preparing the DRBD build tree
4.3.4. Building DRBD userspace utilities
4.3.5. Compiling DRBD as a kernel module
4.4. Building a DRBD RPM package
4.5. Building a DRBD Debian package
5. Configuring DRBD
5.1. Preparing your lower-level storage
5.2. Preparing your network configuration
5.3. Configuring your resource
5.3.1. Example configuration
5.3.2. The global section
5.3.3. The common section
5.3.4. The resource sections
5.4. Enabling your resource for the first time
5.5. The initial device synchronization
5.6. Using truck based replication