Quick Update

Just wanted to give a quick update. On the ZFS front i have really made inroads. I now have to decide whether to create a stand alone snappy kernel module (which could assist folks outside of my little tinkerings) or roll snappy into zfsonlinux, so i can do some benches, and see if its a viable alternative to the compression included in zfs. I am leaning toward kernel module, but I've found a project called snappy-c that is a completely C port of snappy. This will make option #1 super easy.


On the tinkering front, Xamarin has ported the java layer of android to C#. I have already gotten my hands on the source. Planning to put it on a phone or tablet soon.

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