linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 13:39:15 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>
Cc:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	akpm@...l.org, Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> > I've been semi watching this, and the only comment I really can give
> > is that I hate the name.  To me, logfs implies a filesystem for
> > logging purposes, not for Flash hardware with wear leveling issues to
> > be taken into account.
> 
> Yeah, well, ...
> 
> Two years ago when I started all this, I was looking for a good name.
> All I could come up with sounded stupid, so I picked "LogFS" as a code
> name.  As soon as I find a better name, the code name should get
> replaced.
> 

When doing a google search on logfs, there are less than five results
among the first 100 that don't refer to your work. The other two listed
in there are also log-structured file systems: The inferno flash file
system (http://inferno-os.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/liblogfs/) and the
(discontinued) file system named lfs from the 2005 google summer of
code.

I'd say the name should stay, changing it now can only add more confusion.

	Arnd <><
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