From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled) Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 00:20:18 +0100 Message-ID: <20080501002018.2729adcc@core> References: <12095679813226-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <12095679812375-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <12095679812452-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1209567981639-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20080430104330.66c44d4f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080430212711.168bdcc0@core> <1209592973.6113.23.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Kleikamp Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:58938 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755198AbYD3X3U (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:29:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1209592973.6113.23.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > A search of the ACM literature finds "journalized", "journalled" and > > "journaled" are all in use for this operation. > > I hate to get into these discussions, but I've used "journaled" a lot, > so I feel I should chime in. I noticed and IBM cannot even agree internally 8) "Tivoli Storage Manager Journal Based Backup troubleshooting techniques and solutions to common problems seen with journalized backups and the journal database. This is from a 2005_November_07 Support Technical Exchange Web seminar presented by TSM Support staff" "IBM Journaled File System (JFS)" > That would probably be more correct, but the use of "journal" as a verb > has really gotten ingrained in file system developers brains. I > personally haven't heard or used "journalized" and it would take some > getting used to. Mandrake use Journalized File System in various press articles. Mac people seem to like journalized too and google shows it used in various reviews and articles. I think I'm going to follow this up with the professional bodies and see if there is an opinion because either the computing world needs to agree on a proper English name, or they need to agree on a new one and talk to the dictionary people about it. Alan