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From: "Gábor Lehel" <illissius@gmail.com>
To: Wang Shaoyan <stufever@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 00:53:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinGN9-rmUm+NiGm1sDExKpXdpdUyva8jP4h38XG@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimca-wn6wDpENT9t8gTdgFzPXv3uzhtaaHeuySf@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Wang Shaoyan <stufever@gmail.com> wrote=
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> As far as I know, btrfs comes from "btree file system", but why does
> btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

I always thought it should've been called cowtreefs (because it uses
COW, and trees, and cows are funny, trees with cows growing from them
doubly so, etc.) :-)

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-07 22:53 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
2010-08-03  3:38 ` Aaron Toponce
2010-08-03  6:53 ` Tracy Reed
2010-08-07 22:53 ` Gábor Lehel [this message]

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