From: Dave Kleikamp Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix typos in messages and comments (journalled -> journaled) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:28:07 -0500 Message-ID: <1209608887.7650.6.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> 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> <20080501002018.2729adcc@core> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Return-path: Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:55443 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754470AbYEAC2K (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:28:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080501002018.2729adcc@core> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 00:20 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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)" IBM's big. What can I say? :-) > > 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 guess it's more common that I thought. > 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. If there's some kind of consensus, I don't have strong feelings either way. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center