From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 10:05:23 -0400 Message-ID: <20140516140523.GA20683@thunk.org> References: <20140516044611.GA8206@dastard> <20140516054009.GA17647@infradead.org> <20140516085320.GA29279@infradead.org> <1400248927.979.2.camel@sasami.ottawa.blindsidenetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: =?utf-8?B?THVrw6HFoQ==?= Czerner , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Chinner , fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com To: Calvin Walton Return-path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:45092 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757176AbaEPOFy (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2014 10:05:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1400248927.979.2.camel@sasami.ottawa.blindsidenetworks.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0400, Calvin Walton wrote: > > Instead of renaming the test suite, why not just "backronym" it to mean > something different? The letter x is used to mean "cross" in many > contexts, so "xfstests" could easily mean "cross-filesystem tests" - a > name that fits perfectly! Or maybe "extended file system tests", if people really are concerned about the naming. Seriously, is this really that important to folks? - Ted