Thanks for your efforts. > systemd was created specifically to avoid these kind of problems, so maybe > you do want to use it only for this. As far as I am concerned, I'll leave the workaround on my local work station as it is for now. I was just wondering whether I overlooked something obvious; as soon as the situation asks for a more robust and reliable solution, I will give systemd+cryptsetup a try. > I prefer not to do this in initsrcipts itself (as it is a bit too ugly for my liking) I have noticed that the symbolic link for the USB drive in /dev/disk/by-uuid has already been created at the time crypttab is processed in rc.sysinit; still the drive can only accessed and decrypted after some delay. I have only very superficial understanding of the initscripts. Yet, I think that inserting logic just to avoid such specific problems is probably no good, especially when it is dealing with asynchronous behaviour. Regards, Julius
