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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Filesystem Naming
- In-Reply-To: garyt@lgc.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:56:17 GMT
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:35:15 GMT
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- In article <garyt.727635377@lgc.com> garyt@lgc.com (Gary Thompson) writes:
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- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> writes:
-
- >qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) writes:
- >[...]
- >>BTW: due to the name conflict to "log file system", the name of lfs
- >>is going to be changed. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) suggests xiafs
- >>(pronounced as sheaves) and I come out xfs. suggestion wanted.
-
- >I *like* that idea. "xfs" has a nice 'sound' to it.
-
- It does, but there is already an "xfs". There's a paper in the latest
- issue of the X Resource which describes it. Here is the abstract...
-
- [abstract deleted]
-
- Sounds like a "/proc" filesystem for X. I haven't seen it, but it
- sounds cool and since it's already called "xfs", maybe another
- name should be chosen (I kindof like "yafs" :-)
-
- It does sound pretty cool (the proc-like fs for X, that is).
-
- But, this brings up a point I've been meaning to make for a while....
-
- Why do file system names have to contain 'fs'? Right now, none of the
- other filesystems do - proc, msdos, minix, ext, xenix, iso9600. I
- don't see why restricting yourself to a letter + fs is the slightest
- bit desireable.
-
- Thus, I would think a log file system would be referred to as 'log',
- the new 'xfs' as 'xia', a future 'official Linux file system' as
- 'linux'. The only real exceptions I would see to this are where the
- 'fs' is traditionally part of the name, like Berkeley FFS (which could
- just as easily be called 'fast'), or the above-mentioned xfs (which
- could just as easily be called just 'X'), or NFS (which could just as
- easily be called 'net').
-
- What's the obsession with limiting ourselves to a letter plus 'fs'?
- Be creative!
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