Slow Boot Process, sluggish system, rpm-ostree gets stuck

As already surfaced in journalctl the remount-fs.service is running into trouble:

systemctl list-units --failed

  UNIT                       LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION                         
● systemd-remount-fs.service loaded failed failed Remount Root and Kernel File Systems

Legend: LOAD   → Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
        ACTIVE → The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
        SUB    → The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

Searching further what systemd tells me: systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service

systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service
× systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-remount-fs.service; enabled-runtime; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2026-02-12 18:12:28 CET; 1h 11min ago
 Invocation: 9098763dc0f9464c983f8c74a86c1e96
       Docs: man:systemd-remount-fs.service(8)
             https://systemd.io/API_FILE_SYSTEMS
    Process: 1202 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 1202 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Mem peak: 1.6M
        CPU: 51ms

Feb 12 18:12:27 SilverFed systemd[1]: Starting systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
Feb 12 18:12:28 SilverFed systemd-remount-fs[1210]: mount: /: fsconfig() failed: overlay: No changes allowed in reconfigure.My
Feb 12 18:12:28 SilverFed systemd-remount-fs[1210]:        dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
Feb 12 18:12:28 SilverFed systemd-remount-fs[1202]: /usr/bin/mount for / exited with exit status 32.
Feb 12 18:12:28 SilverFed systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 12 18:12:28 SilverFed systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 12 18:12:28 SilverFed systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.

My /etc/fstab looks like this, created during the initial install:

# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Thu Feb  5 15:23:57 2026
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'.
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info.
#
# After editing this file, run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to update systemd
# units generated from this file.
#
# Updated by bootc-fstab-edit.service
UUID=8b3be73f-77bd-4dc0-9efd-d1578d945c55 / btrfs subvol=root,compress=zstd:1,x-systemd.device-timeout=0,ro 0 0
UUID=5a40ecc2-3203-44e2-87c3-e53c8e881741 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=4FFE-09DA /boot/efi vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
UUID=8b3be73f-77bd-4dc0-9efd-d1578d945c55 /home btrfs subvol=home,compress=zstd:1,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0
UUID=8b3be73f-77bd-4dc0-9efd-d1578d945c55 /var btrfs subvol=var,compress=zstd:1,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0