[DRBD-user] Issue with DRDB on debian 11

[Dingwall, James]

I installed DRBD on Debian 11 with ’sudo apt install drbd-utils’ and can properly start the service.

‘drbdadm show-gi —version’ gives me:

DRBDADM_VERSION=9.15.0

But ‘cat /proc/drbd’ give me:

Version 8.4.11

And when I try to put ‘auto-promote yes;’ in the proper section of global_common.conf, I get the following error when try to restart the drbd service:

‘drbd.d/global_common.conf:47: Parse error: ‘an option keyword’ expected, but got ‘auto-promote’

Is this due to my ‘cat /proc/drbd’ showing 8.4.11 and ‘auto-promote’ being a feature of version 9?

How do I fix this?

You will need the drbd-dkms package to update the kernel module version.  drbdadm -V should then report a version 9.x.x for DRBD_KERNEL_VERSION, e.g.

$ drbdadm -V
DRBDADM_BUILDTAG=GIT-hash:\ e267c4413f7cb3d8ec5e793c3fa7f518e95f23b1\ build\ by\ buildd at lcy02-amd64-101\,\ 2023-03-14\ 09:57:26
DRBDADM_API_VERSION=2
DRBD_KERNEL_VERSION_CODE=0x09010c
DRBD_KERNEL_VERSION=9.1.12
DRBDADM_VERSION_CODE=0x091701
DRBDADM_VERSION=9.23.1

James