Boot speedup with readahead

[Rahul Sundaram]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 14:04 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 13:02 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>   - Kristian Høgsberg built razor which can solve deps in fraction of a second
>>> where yum simply takes way too long.  Is anyone in the RPM camp impressed?
>>> No.  They just don't think it's possible to do with RPM.
>>
>> Kristian built something which solves some dependencies. Mostly he wrote
>> a mmap'd repometadata format.
> 
> Look, depsolving isn't hard and razor is on par with yum as far as
> correctness goes and in a whole different class as far as performance
> goes. 

Is it in a usable state for day to day work or atleast for testing? I 
would like to see it packaged and more easily consumable in that case 
atleast for rawhide.

Rahul