[DRBD-user] DRBD Cannot Load Module

Simon Ironside sironside at caffetine.org
Fri Sep 27 15:21:18 CEST 2013

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On 27/09/2013 13:54, V R Murthy Korimilli wrote:

> I tried installing this on RHEL 6.3 (Default Everything). I got the
> package from elrepo, version is 8.3. While i am executing the command
> "modprobe drbd", it is throwing the error "Cannot load DRBD module".

Did you install both packages? You need both drbd83-utils and 
kmod-drbd83. It sounds like you maybe only got drbd83-utils.

In any case, I've never needed to "modprobe drbd" on any of my RHEL 
boxes. With those two packages installed and the drbd service started, 
it works just fine.

Simon




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