Re: [PATCH 00/14] Enhanced df - followup

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On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:17:49 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 05:10:31PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
>> David Sterba posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:56:47 +0200 as excerpted:
>> 
>> > Changes:
>> > * btrfs filesystem disk_usage - renamed to usage
>> 
>> Hopefully this isn't rehashing an old discussion, but...
>> 
>> Simpler is good, and getting rid of the _ is good, but...
> (...) 
>> Given that confusion, I'd suggest either simply making it du, or making 
>> it "device_usage" but with "du" a documented alias printing exactly the 
>> same output, thus giving folks an easy way to avoid the _.
> 
> It's also fine to just use disk-usage instead of disk_usage.

I think the point was to have the same term for both filesystem and
device categories, which IMHO makes a lot of sense and is less
to remember. Categorical polymorphism: it's a good thing. :)

-h

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