From owner-cvs-all Fri May 17 0:56:35 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-card5-0-cust12.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.3.216.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD2D37B404; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 178cbD-0001eB-00; Fri, 17 May 2002 08:56:27 +0100 Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:56:27 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Tom Rhodes , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 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: <20020517075627.GC5839@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Tom Rhodes , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200205160410.g4G4Akn73697@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516163820.H1640-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020517110130.P97098@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020517110130.P97098@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:01:30AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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". The original manual page for mount(2) also uses "file system" : http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/man22.pdf Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message