[HN Gopher] 50 Years in Filesystems: 1984
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50 Years in Filesystems: 1984
Author : kaycebasques
Score : 69 points
Date : 2025-03-06 18:34 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| gjvc wrote:
| As the old saying says: "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't
| tune a fish."
| sadboots wrote:
| lol
| catgirlinspace wrote:
| is there some metaphor i'm missing or is it just funny?
| CraigJPerry wrote:
| tuna fish
|
| Tune-a-fish
|
| EDIT: looks like there's a bit more to it
| https://unixhistory.livejournal.com/1808.html
| kps wrote:
| The phrase originates with the 'BUGS' section of the 4.2BSD
| man page for the `tunefs(8)` command, for the Berkeley Fast
| File System that is the topic of the OP article.
| gjvc wrote:
| This
| jhbadger wrote:
| It's a reference to a joke by the comedian Groucho Marx
| (1890-1977) "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish"
| (also a title of a 1978 REO Speedwagon album paying homage to
| Marx who had recently died). It's a pun on "tune a" and
| "tuna".
| pjdesno wrote:
| Note that there are some significant non-Unix filesystems along
| the way. In particular, a few years later: "Reimplementing the
| Cedar File System Using Logging and Group Commit", Robert
| Hagmann, Xerox PARC. SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, November
| 1987.
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| That's the origin of the journaling approach used in post-FFS
| unix file systems through the 90s. (I don't count ext2 as "post-
| FFS", as it's basically FFS on a disk with LBA addressing)
| gjvc wrote:
| Xerox PARC strikes again
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