From owner-cvs-all Thu May 16 18:31:41 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B4E37B400; Thu, 16 May 2002 18:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4D6188148E; Fri, 17 May 2002 11:01:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:01:30 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bruce Evans Cc: Tom Rhodes , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Correct spelling (was: cvs commit: src/sbin/adjkerntz adjkerntz.8 src/sbin/badsect badsect.8 badsect.c src/sbin/clri clri.8 src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.5 disklabel.8 src/sbin/dump Makefile dump.h main.c) Message-ID: <20020517110130.P97098@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200205160410.g4G4Akn73697@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516163820.H1640-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020516163820.H1640-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 16 May 2002 at 16:40:25 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Tom Rhodes wrote: > >> Log: >> more file system > filesystem > > The number of these changes probably shows that the change is from > one correct spelling to another at best, or backwards at worst. I > prefer "file system" in most contexts. Agreed. There's no evidence that "filesystem" is correct. Most spell checkers flag it. I've just checked the usage in print media. I grabbed seven books which seemed relatively representative: 4.4BSD System manager's manual (with the original McKusick et al "A Fast File System for UNIX" (sic), "The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD", "Design of the OSF/1 Operating System", Bach "The Design of the UNIX Operating System", a better unknown "UNIX Internals" by Shaw and Shaw, the Bell System Technical Journal original report on UNIX, and Goodheart and Cox "The Magic Garden Explained: Internals of SVR4". With the exception of the 4.4BSD book, they all spell it "file system". This is also consistent with English spelling rules. I would therefore ask that at very least all these commits be backed out. If you want to be consistent, change all incidents of "filesystem" to "file system". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message