Part II. Building, installing and configuring DRBD

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3. Installing pre-built DRBD binary packages
Packages supplied by LINBIT
Packages supplied by distribution vendors
4. Building and installing DRBD from source
Downloading the DRBD sources
Checking out sources from the public DRBD source repository
Building DRBD from source
Checking build prerequisites
Preparing the kernel source tree
Preparing the DRBD build tree
Building DRBD userspace utilities
Compiling DRBD as a kernel module
Building a DRBD RPM package
Building a DRBD Debian package
5. Configuring DRBD
Preparing your lower-level storage
Preparing your network configuration
Configuring your resource
Example configuration
The global section
The common section
The resource sections
Enabling your resource for the first time
The initial device synchronization
Using truck based replication