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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!ra!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric
  3. From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
  4. Subject: Re: lfs 0.6 --> "xfs"
  5. Message-ID: <C1836z.Gww@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
  6. Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
  7. Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
  8. References: <1jh0kcINNlln@uwm.edu> <garyt.727635377@lgc.com> <1993Jan21.193335.7818@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
  9. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:18:34 GMT
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  12. In article <1993Jan21.193335.7818@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mancus@carla.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus/MDSSC) writes:
  13. >  How about "lefs", for "Linux Extended File System"?  Easy to pronounce,
  14. >very succinct, and clear.
  15.  
  16.     Or better yet, "lefse".  The 'e' does not stand for anything in
  17. particular, but given the scandanavian origins of Linux, it would seem a
  18. fitting name.  More Norweigian/Swedish than Finnish I suppose.
  19.  
  20. -Eric
  21.  
  22.  
  23. -- 
  24. A host is a host from coast to coast.....eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
  25. & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
  26. Unless the host (that isn't close).................................
  27. is busy, hung or dead................................Eric Youngdale
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