Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:32:42 -0500 Geoff Speicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dragonfly larvae are called nymphs, Hmm so a small derivative OS based on DragonFLy could be ... Nah - let's not, it would be worse than the How do you pronounce Linux thing. -- C:WIN

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Luciani
[ In response to Matt's note in kernel@ about needing a name for his filesystem ] My creative (beer) juices are flowing, so indulge or ignore as you see fit. Dragonfly larvae are called nymphs, which can be pronounced the same way but written as NymphFS or shortened to NymFS if

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
cut As mentioned in the kernel thread: HACFS High-Availability Clustered FS some other's: NCFSNetwork Clusterable FS IDFSIP Distributed FS DANAD Distributed Array of Network Accessible Disks GUDSGood use of disk space Though HACFS (hack fs) is still my favorite. -- mph

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread Ernesto Bascon
Nymfs is a great name! On 22/02/07, Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut As mentioned in the kernel thread: HACFS High-Availability Clustered FS some other's: NCFSNetwork Clusterable FS IDFSIP Distributed FS DANAD Distributed Array of Network Accessible Disks GUDSGood

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread B. Estrade
On 2/22/07, Ernesto Bascon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nymfs is a great name! On 22/02/07, Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut As mentioned in the kernel thread: HACFS High-Availability Clustered FS some other's: NCFS Network Clusterable FS IDFS IP Distributed FS DANAD

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread steve
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:31:59PM +, B. Estrade wrote: On 2/22/07, Ernesto Bascon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nymfs is a great name! On 22/02/07, Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut As mentioned in the kernel thread: HACFS High-Availability Clustered FS

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread Petr Janda
Ernesto Bascon wrote: Nymfs is a great name! On 22/02/07, Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut As mentioned in the kernel thread: HACFSHigh-Availability Clustered FS some other's: NCFSNetwork Clusterable FS IDFSIP Distributed FS DANADDistributed Array of Network

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
steve wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:31:59PM +, B. Estrade wrote: On 2/22/07, Ernesto Bascon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nymfs is a great name! On 22/02/07, Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut As mentioned in the kernel thread: HACFS High-Availability Clustered FS

distributed filesystem name

2007-02-21 Thread Geoff Speicher
[ In response to Matt's note in kernel@ about needing a name for his filesystem ] My creative (beer) juices are flowing, so indulge or ignore as you see fit. Dragonfly larvae are called nymphs, which can be pronounced the same way but written as NymphFS or shortened to NymFS if necessary.

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-21 Thread Geoff Speicher
Oh... and the segment header, data table, and record table can be called the head, thorax, and abdomen. Geoff

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-21 Thread Ben Jolitz
DrachFS. Drache=Dragon in deutsch. Dragon - Dragonfly, eh? Dragonfly larvae are called nymphs, which can be pronounced the same way but written as NymphFS or shortened to NymFS if necessary. Seems somehow fitting that eggs are produced in quantities of hundreds or thousands. Plus, lots of fun

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-21 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On 2/22/07, Ben Jolitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the side, why can't Fred eat a penguin? We could always put him through an enlarge ray. http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/mpmain.html#scaling I like the name 'NymFS' except for the other words that stem from the 'nymph' root. Probably