Hugo Mills posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:10:20 +0000 as excerpted: > Did you mean "fated": intended, destined? No, I meant "feted", altho I understand in Europe the first "e" would likely have a carot-hat (fêted), but us US-ASCII folks don't have such a thing easily available, so unless I copy/paste as I just did or use charselect, "feted" without the carot it is. Where I've seen "feted" used it tends to have a slightly future- predictive hint to it, something that's considered a "shoe-in" to use another term, but that isn't necessarily certain just yet. Alternatively or as well, it can mean something that many or the majority considers/ celebrates as true, but that the author isn't necessarily taking a particular position on at this time, perhaps as part of the traditional journalist's neutral observer's perspective, saying "other people celebrate it as", without personally 100% endorsing the same position. Which fit my usage exactly. I wanted to indicate that btrfs' position as a successor to the ext3/4 throne is a widely held expectation, but that while I agree with the general sentiment, it's with a "wait and see if/ when these few details get fixed" attitude, because I don't think that a btrfs that a knowledgeable admin must babysit in ordered to be sure it doesn't run out of unallocated chunks, for example, is quite ready for usage by "the masses", that is, to take the throne as crowned successor to ext3/4 just yet. And "feted" seemed the perfect word to express and acknowledge that expectation, while at the same time conveying my slight personal reservation. In fact, until I looked up the word I had no idea the word could also be used as a noun in addition to my usage as a verb, and used as a noun, that it meant a feast, celebration or carnival. I was familiar only with the usage I demonstrated here, including the slight hint of third party neutrality or wait-and-see reservation, which was in fact my reason for choosing the term in the first place. (This is of course one reason I so enjoy newsgroups and mailing lists. One never knows what sort of entirely unpredicted but useful thing one might learn from them, even in my own replies sometimes! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html