Paul Querna --- who wrote the initial revprop packing patch (the f5 one, which has been reverted) --- mentions that his use case for revprop packing has vanished due to hardware upgrades (acquiring SSD l2arc disks).
With that in mind, what's the fate of the (flat files -based) 'revprop-packing' branch? Will anyone need it by the time 1.8.0 is released? If not, we may forget about the branch and avoid finishing and reintegrating it for 1.8.0.
