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_