https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737917
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737917#c8
--- Comment #8 from Frederic Crozat fcrozat@suse.com 2012-01-03 12:41:29 UTC --- md.service is taking a lot of time but I'm guessing you have MD RAID on your system ?
for NTP, I can't really say if it is normal for it to take so much time or not.