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2009-04-21: Tuesday.

Up early, poked at some boot time issue - fsck being run on every boot. Turns out if your kernel mounts root with different data ordering flags to that in your fstab; then when you unmount the partition you get: EXT3-fs: cannot change data mode on remount which seems to be code for - bad luck we didn't really unmount it; workaround add rootflags=data=writeback to the kernel command line.
Discovered we spend 3 extra seconds at boot, before hitting the initrd if we have a resume=/dev/sda1 type kernel command-line; magic - hopefully Greg can fix it. Worked insanely late.

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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)