From: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:37:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C578F06.6040406@csamuel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimca-wn6wDpENT9t8gTdgFzPXv3uzhtaaHeuySf@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/08/10 13:27, Wang Shaoyan wrote:
> As far as I know, btrfs comes from "btree file system", but why does
> btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?
My guess is that it is a pun on "better-fs", btr being a possible
contraction of better.
English is a funny old language..
--
Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-03 3:27 why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"? Wang Shaoyan
2010-08-03 3:37 ` Chris Samuel [this message]
2010-08-03 3:38 ` Aaron Toponce
2010-08-03 6:53 ` Tracy Reed
2010-08-07 22:53 ` Gábor Lehel
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