Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > systemd is downstream to udev. If udev doesn't process a block device > because of the taken BSD file lock on the main block device, then > systemd (and other downstreams of udev) won't get such notificaitons > either. And thus won't automount. The BSD lock does not prevent the udev processing, it only delays it until after the lock is released doesn't it?