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 -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
