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In article 7309@ukw.uucp, lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
>st...@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:
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>>Jay.As...@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth) writes:
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>>>Barry Margolin, to All on Friday April 24 1992:
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>>> 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.
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>>>To the best of my knowledge, Barry, from 9 years at this...
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>>>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).
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>>Eh.  Excuse me to butt in here with a little bit of >EVIDENCE<.
>>All you people have to do is RTFM.  Look at this:
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>>%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
>>%
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>>Try this with '\(8\)' for even more confusement.  In short, use
>>whatever feels better to your fingers while you type it.
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>It just did a bit of research (this is SunOS 4.1.2):
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>	grep 'file system' /usr/man/man*/* > 'file system'
>	grep 'filesystem'  /usr/man/man*/* > 'filesystem'
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>	wc -l file*
>	     909 file system
>	     207 filesystem
>	    1116 total
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>This is 81% for "file system", 19% for "filesystem".
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>What does *your* vendor say?

Better than allowing vendors to set terminology standards: check what POSIX
standard uses.  IEEE 1003.1 sanctifies the term "file system", with a space.

	Chris Flatters
	cfla...@nrao.edu