why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

[Wang Shaoyan]

As far as I know, btrfs comes from "btree file system", but why does
btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

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Wang Shaoyan

Re: why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

[Chris Samuel]

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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 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

Re: why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

[Aaron Toponce]

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On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:27:32AM +0800, Wang Shaoyan wrote:
> As far as I know, btrfs comes from "btree file system", but why does
> btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

The same reason we pronounce "ext3" as "eks tee three" rather than "eee
eks tee three"- laziness. "btree file system" is two extra syllables of
inefficiency over "butter fs".

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Re: why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

[Tracy Reed]

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On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:27:32AM +0800, Wang Shaoyan spake thusly:
> As far as I know, btrfs comes from "btree file system", but why does
> btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

Because fat and greasy is attractive and encourages adoption of the
filesystem. I'm hoping we can get RMS to be the butter-eff-ess
spokesman.

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Tracy "that's a joke, son" Reed
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Re: why does btrfs pronounce "butter-eff-ess"?

[Gábor Lehel]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Wang Shaoyan <stufever@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> 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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