The source tarballs for both current and historic DRBD releases are available for download from http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/. Source tarballs, by convention, are named drbd-x.y.z.tar.gz, where x, y and z refer to the major, minor and bugfix release numbers.

DRBD’s compressed source archive is less than half a megabyte in size. To download and uncompress into your current working directory, issue the following commands:

$ wget http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf drbd-8.4.0.tar.gz

	Note
	The use of wget for downloading the source tarball is purely an example. Of course, you may use any downloader you prefer.

It is recommended to uncompress DRBD into a directory normally used for keeping source code, such as /usr/src or /usr/local/src. The examples in this guide assume /usr/src.