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In article <tdfmj...@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, 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.

Oh...of course!!!! It must be true! They wrote it in the man pages! :}

filesystem:	a logical storage allocation for the systematic organization
		and containment of data.

file system:	a large cabinet intended for the storage of files.

Calling a 'filesystem' a 'file system' is a Berkeleyism that never
quite died. The terms are only interchangeable if you get paid to 
write shoddy man-pages or if your 'filesystem' is housed in a 'file
system'

Of course...this is only my own personal reality as I know and
propagate it.

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