[gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow

[David Relson]

Mounting USB devices is very, very slow.  This morning I inserted my
PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3
minutes later at 10:21:05.

As  background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is: 

    KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", RUN+="/bin/mount -a"

and in /etc/fstab is:

    /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0

The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).

Any thoughts on why it takes so long and how I can speed up
recognition?

Ideas for enabling more messages (from udev, the kernel, etc) to see
what's happening would also be helpful.

TIA,

David