On 13/10/12, Arne Jansen (sensille@xxxxxxx) wrote: > On 10/12/12 15:32, Arne Jansen wrote: > > > The idea of the btrfs send stream format was to generate it in a way that > > it is easy to receive on different platforms. Thus the proposed name FITS, for > > Filesystem Incremental Backup Stream. We should also build the tools to > > receive the stream on different platforms. > > I meant to write 'Filesystem Incremental Transport Stream', but, as > Andrey Kuzmin pointed out, the name FITS is already taken. As the > 'Backup' slipped in somehow, FIBS might be an alternative. Any > thoughts? Perhaps "BTRFS Incremental Stream" or "Backup Incremental Stream" should be considered, with the file extension ".bis". The word "bis" is also, according to Wikipedia, "...a prefix of suffix designating the second instance of a thing...", which seems largely appropriate. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIS Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
