On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:15:13PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:43, KELEMEN Peter wrote:
> > * Steve Lord (lord@xxxxxxx) [20030821 11:09]:
> >
> > > Originally the project was internally refered to as xFS,
> > > presumably until marketing came up with a letter or name which
> > > was deemed acceptable. After a while the x just stuck without
> > > having a meaning assigned to it, and it was capitalized.
> >
> > It should be noted that there is a Serverless Network File System
> > from Berkeley that is precisely called "xFS", as you can see at
> > http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Xfs/xfs.html . Also, there are other
> > products named "XFS", for example a popular NFS client for DOS.
> > http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/SuSE/i386/8.2/dosutils/xfs186/xfs.txt
>
> Two more:
> - xfs - the X font server
> - the XMethods Filesystem - http://www.xmethods.net/xfs/
(adding more trivia to this useful thread)
The kernel part of the arla client (alternative AFS) is also often called xfs.
-Andi
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