Building DRBD v9 from scratch

tested on Slackware/142,current and Ubuntu/focal

Warning

Use kernel.org longterm, not stable. Otherwise you will face loads of troubles.

Requirements

Slackware

slackpkg install gc libffi libmpc ocaml coccinelle libcroco po4a
#otherwise assuming the D and L sets are installed

for pkg in gc libffi libmpc ocaml coccinelle libcroco po4a; do
    ls -lF /var/log/packages/$pkg-*
done; unset pkg
#ocaml-findlib

slackpkg install automake

Ubuntu

apt install build-essential automake

#for coccinelle
apt install ocaml ocaml-findlib

you need kernel headers in any case

uname -r
ls -lF /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
ls -lF /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source

ready to proceed

which spatch

Coccinelle

as binary

add-apt-repository ppa:npalix/coccinelle
apt install coccinelle

from source

git clone https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle.git
cd coccinelle/
./autogen
./configure
echo $MAKEFLAGS
make > ../coccinelle.log && echo BUILT

#was required on slackware
#no problem on ubuntu (gets created there)
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/coccinelle/python/coccilib/

make install >/dev/null && echo INSTALLED
cd ../

Download DRBD v9 kernel module

Better get the latest release from LINBIT directly (github release tags do not always correspond to the latest available one).

#wget https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd/archive/drbd-9.0.25-1.tar.gz
#tar xzf drbd-9.0.25-1.tar.gz
#cd drbd-drbd-9.0.25-1/drbd/

wget https://www.linbit.com/downloads/drbd/9.0/drbd-9.0.26-0rc2.tar.gz
tar xzf drbd-9.0.26-0rc2.tar.gz
cd drbd-9.0.26-0rc2/drbd/

otherwise simply get the v9 branch already

git clone --branch drbd-9.0 --recursive https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd.git
cd drbd/drbd/

Build DRBD v9 kernel module

#make distclean
#make clean
make > ../../drbd9.log && echo BUILT
make install >/dev/null && echo INSTALLED
depmod -a

ls -lF /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/
find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -type f | grep drbd | xargs ls -lhF
cd ../../

DRBD tools

from source on slackware

slackpkg install libgcrypt libgpg-error libxml2
#libxslt
git clone --recursive https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd-utils
cd drbd-utils/
./autogen.sh
./configure --help | less
./configure --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --with-xen --with-heartbeat --with-bashcompletion \
    --with-udev --without-manual
#--prefix=/usr
make clean
make > ../drbd-utils.log && echo BUILT
make install
ls -lF /etc/init.d/drbd
cd ../

binaries on ubuntu

add-apt-repository ppa:linbit/linbit-drbd9-stack
apt install drbd-utils

Troubleshooting

See drbd-source-troubles. In a nutshell, use kernel.og longterm, not stable.

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