Comment 7 for bug 367782

If I understand Scott's reply, the problem is that we all expect a synchronous response from an asynchronous device. What about writing a small daemon that is automatically activated at boot (init.d), and waits until the device is available in order to mount it? Feeding the daemon with the mount parameters could be done inserting a keyword in commented fstab lines, so that one could simply update this file, in order to have a lazy mounting operation on that drive. By the way, applications based on that filesystem should be aware on the lazy mount operation.

Right?