(In reply to Werner Fink from comment #5) > and are you aware that I'll accept this slow down in comparision to a broken dwpendency chain? In this case of external storage devices switched around because external ports are limited, there isn't any "dependency" involved, other than a mount location I chose, and mounting automatically at connect time. I used to use noauto, but found nofail more convenient, and now you've apparently removed that convenience. Maybe nofail needs a sub-option whether or how long to delay proceeding while waiting.