Re: "tfs" and other filesystems with very short names

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"Greg A. Woods" <woods%most.weird.com@localhost> 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_