Re: The X in XFS

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 18:22, Dan Koren wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> 
> 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".
> 
> Incidentally, XFS was developed in Mountain View,
> not in Eagan ;-)
> 

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