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From: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
Subject: Re: why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:37:42 +1000
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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..

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