From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo Pacheco Subject: Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:22:07 -0300 Message-ID: <200404051222.07071.marcelo@macp.eti.br> References: <200404050401.i3541XVk004592@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> <87fzbj9fws.fsf@uhoreg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <87fzbj9fws.fsf@uhoreg.ca> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Exactly. Metas is goals/objectives in portuguese. Although it's extremelly uncommon to have files without extensions, I would still much rather prefer having .metas instead of metas. Marcelo Pacheco On Monday 05 April 2004 02:01, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "The" == The Amazing Dragon (Elliott Mitchell) > >>>>> writes: > > [...] > > The> Good point, search engines as evidence. The problem is you're only > The> looking at distributions, which are going to be highly similar and > The> you're completely missing end users. So let us take this to a full > The> search engine and see what turns up... Hmm, roughly a million > The> hits, let us look at a few samples: > > I'm only getting a bit less than 600,000. Maybe we caught Google in the > middle of some reindexing. But anyways... > > Most of the pages seem to be Spanish and Portuguese. Google translation > translates "metas" as "goals". Are there any Spanish or Portuguese > speakers on this list to confirm that? > > Since "goals" is a fairly common word, it probably is a bad idea to use > "metas" without at least some sort of prefix.