Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:43:29 +0200
From: KELEMEN Peter <Peter.Kelemen@cern.ch>
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Subject: Re: The X in XFS
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* Steve Lord (lord@sgi.com) [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

Of course, there is only one true XFS! :-)

Peter

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