[PATCH] LogFS take three

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de
Thu May 17 13:07:32 EDT 2007


On May 16 2007 22:06, CaT wrote:
>On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:50:03PM +0200, J??rn Engel wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:34:34 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> > 
>> > But if akpm can't pronounce it, how about FFFS for faster flash
>> > filesystem.... ;-)
>> 
>> How many of you have worked for IBM before?  Vowels are not evil. ;)
>> 
>> Grouping four or more consonants to name anything will cause similar
>> expressions on people's faces.  Numbers don't help much either.
>> 
>> Ext2 is a great name, because "ext" actually is a pronouncable syllable.
>> MinixFS, ChunkFS, TileFS are great too.  XFS and JFS are ok, at least
>> they only have three consonants.  But FFS exists, so I'd rather go for a
>> syllable.
>
>FlashFS?

Or just try once dropping all those redundant 'fs' suffixes.
bdev, proc, cpuset, devpts, mqueue, fuse(blk|ctl), vfat, iso9660, etc.
Then there's much more space for innovative names.


	Jan
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