Subject: Re: "tfs" and other filesystems with very short names
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/23/1998 09:47:19
"Greg A. Woods" <woods@most.weird.com> writes:
> Let's see (this from directories only in the kernel):
>
> With "fs" suffix: Without "fs" suffix:
> ================= ====================
>
> adosfs* coda
> filecorefs
> isofs
> miscfs/
> deadfs fdesc
> fifofs portal
> (genfs)* union
> kernfs*
> nullfs
> procfs
> specfs
> umapfs
> msdosfs*
> nfs*
> ufs/
> ex2fs*
> ffs*
> lfs*
> mfs*
> (ufs)*
>
> That's about 16 to 4 if you count real filesystem types. I've not (yet)
* uses <xx>fs_<yyy> as the method name
So counting this way we get a much more even split. The method names
and variable names, etc. would have to be attended to if we do a
rename. Finally, there is the issue of what the files in the
directory are called. For example, the files in filecorefs/ begin
filecore_, while those in msdosfs/ begin msdosfs_