Re: filesystems

<robertwessel2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1140329366.556123.285260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

there's (at least) HFS,
JFS, UFS2, XFS, and ZFS. Have the people who name these things no
imagination whatsoever?

When an acronym ends with FS and the context is operating system components, I can usually infer that we're talking about some sort of file system (so I might have had some trouble with UFS2, but maybe not; too late to tell now.)

If you start giving them names like "Avalon", "Yukon", "Bulverde", etc. I'd have no idea what you're talking about. Could be a file system, but could be a new GUI or DRM subsystem for all I know.

Imaginative names might be good for marketting, but they're not so good for technical discussions.

- Oliver

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