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[...]
> ok. so what exactly do you want to protect with that lock?
> I thought of locking the physical device.
>
> anycase, we probably should be able to identify which meta data block
> belongs to which data storage area, independently of device nodes and
> numbers.
>

The initail idea was to prevent drbdsetup to run while drbdmeta runs...

-philipp
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