On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:31:40PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: > The loop module gets autoloaded by accessing /dev/loop. > A program (mount) would have to load the module, if it wants /dev/loop* and > wait for udev to create the device. > We could load the loop device on system startup, but you may not want to > have loaded "every" module, you could possibly use in one session. How about calling "mount -a" twice? Once to touch any devices that may need to have nodes created by udev, and again to actually succeed on mounting those devices?