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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-latest.tar.gz $ tar -xzf drbd-latest.tar.gz
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The use of |
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
.