DRBD 9 kernel module for Fedora

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I was trying to enable the quorum feature and getting an error “Parse error: ‘an option keyword’ expected, but got ‘quorum’”

Turns out the reason is that I’m using Fedora 41, and even though userland packages are DRBD 9.28.0, cat /proc/drbd says the kernel module is DRBD 8.4.11. Ancient!

I know resources are finite and you can’t support every distro, but I’d really like to get DRBD 9 working on Fedora if possible. I’m just trying to think through options.

  • Is anyone aware of any 3rd party dnf repos with DRBD 9 kernel module for Fedora?
  • Has anyone managed to compile the kernel module on Fedora 41 recently? And if we do manage to compile it successfully, will we need to recompile every time the kernel is updated?
  • Should we really just use Rocky 9 instead if we want to use DRBD?
  • Is there any contact between Linbit and the Fedora working groups? I’m on the fedora-server mailing list, should I ask there what would be required to get the module updated in a future release?

Thanks in advance for any feedback or suggestions.