[linux-cifs-client] Re: linux-cifs-client Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1

[Steve French (smfltc)]

> what also puzzles me... almost every filesystem that's not at revision 1
> anymore (ext2/3/4, reiser4, smb2) does not have the usually omnipresent "fs"
> suffix anymore (cf. reiserfs, smbfs).
> Maybe it's time to drop all the "fs" suffixes?  :) 

For the case of cifs (and nfs and afs) the "fs" is part of the name of 
the protocol ("common internet file system [protocol]") but for the 
other filesystems I agree that it seems redundant to put "fs" in the 
name (with a few exceptions e.g. "GFS2" would sound strange if named 
"G2" or "global2", and OCFS2 is presumably a product name).