On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 18:22, Dan Koren wrote:
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> Hi Steve,
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> Sorry to disagree with you, but X really did stand
> for something. The early design documents (which
> may have vanished by the time Cray was acquired)
> referred to the "eXtended File System".
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> Incidentally, XFS was developed in Mountain View,
> not in Eagan ;-)
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Dan,
I had checked this with Doug Doucette who predates me as well as you,
and he confirmed this. I never said XFS was originally developed in
Eagan.
You will find Doug's name on a lot of design papers which have been
on the web here for a couple of years now.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/design_docs/xfsdocs93_pdf/
Steve
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