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Is the name designed to be intentionally confusing?

Looks like they are starting with the popular BTRFS, and then making the pun of this being "better," and also implying the Be tree data structure they use.

I bet it's intended to be pronounced "Better Eff Ess."

But that's already how a lot of people pronounce Btrfs...

I thought everyone said butterface.

I'm definitely calling it that starting today.

> Amanda: To clear this up, once and for all: is it pronounced BetterFS or ButterFS?

> Chris: <Grin> Definitely both.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120627065427/http://www.linuxf...

I personally find it really douchey. BTRFS definitely had this first and using such a name in full knowledge of BTRFS is just in poor taste.

They should call it Bepsilon FS, or Bepsi for short.

Bepsi Max for when you need large volume support

Oh no, we're kindling the Bepis vs Conk debate now.

OMAN BEPIS

Letting programmers name their projects was always a mistake.

letting C-level name projects is always a mistake too. "project Crossbow!" (Microsoft, Sun, EU, ...)

After a former colleague of mine, Stuart’s rule of system naming: The whizzier the name, the crappier the system. Inside corporates the correlation is uncanny.

for operating systems, it's the opposite: the crappier the name, the better the OS. "Plan 9", "Fiasco", ...

That’s the thing with correlations, they work both ways :-)

UUID4 or go home?

WSL would like a word with you.

Is it that bad? There is plenty of technical shortcuts which differ in a single letter - that should not be an issue. Plus one is pronounced /ˈbiːtriː/ and the other likely /ˈbɛtə/ (or /ˈbɛtəɹ/ in the US :)).

I think that this is particularly bad since there are many different pronunciations for btrfs. E.g. Wikipedia says

> Btrfs (pronounced as "better F S", "butter F S", "b-tree F S", or simply by spelling it out)

and I heard all of them in practice (except for spelling it out). While you can hear the difference for "b-tree F S", the other ones are much harder to distinguish.

Oh, thx for pointing that out. I was not aware of the other possible pronunciations.

Swedish person thinking I'll just pronounce it "bee tee arr FS". I mean that's what it says and it isn't a tounge warper so... Same with SQL, never got the sequel / whatever pronunciation, I just say the darn letters.

It's the single letter in a relatively complex acronym where the single letter doesn't distinguish the underlying name.

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