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List:       illumos-developer
Subject:    Re: [developer] "filesystem" or "file system"?
From:       "Jim Klimov" <jimklimov () cos ! ru>
Date:       2016-02-21 11:06:14
Message-ID: D3A54EA1-C3CD-41D5-9D74-0D4C3D168E40 () cos ! ru
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21 февраля 2016  г. 7:28:02 CET, Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com> \
пишет:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@nexenta.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:45:48 +0000, David Lethe wrote:
> > 
> > > First, it is grammatically correct and proper jargon to use these
> > > interchangeably.
> > > There are usage specific cases  where one is more correct than
> another  (
> > > just google filesystem vs file system), and you will get a lot of
> hits
> > > that attempt to explain.
> > > 
> > > Bottom line, don't worry about it.  (And i suggest not doing the
> same
> > > thing for "filename" and "file name").  That will also depress you.
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, I find the following (from zfs(1M)) pretty weird - that was the
> > original reason to ask:
> > 
> > file system
> > 
> 
> This seems wrong to me -- the type is "filesystem" because that's what
> the
> property value is (run "zfs list -o name,type").
> 
> 
> > A ZFS dataset of type filesystem
> 
> 
> This seems right because it's referring to the property value (as
> above).
> 
> 
> > can be mounted within the
> > standard system namespace and behaves like other file
> systems.
> 
> 
> This use seems to fall under the "interchangeable use" that David
> described.  Or the "two words best" that Garret posits.  More
> importantly,
> this would be easier to understand if it explained that here we mean
> non-ZFS filesystems (e.g. UFS).  A better ending to this sentence would
> be
> "behaves similarly to non-ZFS filesystems (e.g. UFS)".
> 
> --matt
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Feb 20, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I believe that formally two words is more correct.
> > > > 
> > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > > 
> > > > On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:01 AM, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@nexenta.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Looking at updating zfs(1M) man page, I've stumbled upon different
> > > > > forms - "filesystem" and "file system", it seems to be
> inconsistent over
> > > > > the whole set of our man pages as well:
> > > > > 
> > > > > $ grep -Fri 'filesystem' usr/src/man/ | wc -l
> > > > > 433
> > > > > $ grep -Fri 'file system' usr/src/man/ | wc -l
> > > > > 2113
> > > > > 
> > > > > So, what is the "correct" form that we should strive to use?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

I'd say it is two words where you underline that it is a system of files as opposed \
to some other system of somethings (graphical subsystem, etc.) To be used rarely, \
IMHO ;-)

A filesystem as one word to me describes a class of code and concepts that you \
differentiate from e.g. kernel or networking.

But given how much you can abstract something with smth else in Unix, the difference \
is vague ;/

--
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