Permission to introduce myself and i hope this kind of thing is allowed in this mailing list and my advance apologies if it is not. I am a founder and current maintainer of a project called zuluCrypt[1] and i though i should introduce it here since we seem to overlap in some function. The project is made up of two components,one component(zuluCrypt) seeks to manage encrypted devices and the other,(zuluMount) is a general purpose mount tool and this is the tool that has some overlap with udisks since its primary use case is a general purpose mount tool than can manage zuluCrypt encrypted volumes as well as unencrypted volume. More info is on the project main page link below,screenshots links are at the end of the page. Few questions i have received and hope to answer them preemptively just in case somebody is curious. 1. Why did i not use udev. When i started,i had a very specific use case and the use case is still the core one.Management of cryptsetup PLAIN volume type that reside in files.udev did not come to the picture early one because its primary purpose is management of block devices while my primary use case does not involve block devices. 2. Why did i not use udisks. Because udisks prefers it not to be used by small time developers whose work is not tied to desktop environments[2] [1] <a href="http://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/">http://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/</a> [2] <a href="http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html">http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html</a>