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st...@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:

>Jay.As...@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth) writes:

>>Barry Margolin, to All on Friday April 24 1992:

>> BM> Terminology question: are the Unix units of file storage called
>> BM> "filesystems" (one word) or "file systems" (two words)?  Neither is in
>> BM> TNHD.

>>To the best of my knowledge, Barry, from 9 years at this...

>>The jargon term for what you boot from, or mount, on a unix system is, from the preponderance of the references I've seen, is "filesystem" (no space).

>Eh.  Excuse me to butt in here with a little bit of >EVIDENCE<.
>All you people have to do is RTFM.  Look at this:

>%man -k \(2\) | grep file | grep system
>getdents (2)            - gets directory entries in a filesystem independent format 
>getdirentries (2)       - gets directory entries in a filesystem independent format
>statfs, fstatfs (2)     - get file system statistics
>ustat (2)               - get file system statistics
>%

>Try this with '\(8\)' for even more confusement.  In short, use
>whatever feels better to your fingers while you type it.

It just did a bit of research (this is SunOS 4.1.2):

	grep 'file system' /usr/man/man*/* > 'file system'
	grep 'filesystem'  /usr/man/man*/* > 'filesystem'

	wc -l file*
	     909 file system
	     207 filesystem
	    1116 total

This is 81% for "file system", 19% for "filesystem".

What does *your* vendor say?
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