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"Far out the most common"? Hardly. A search on both terms on Google
returns 3 million for "file system" and 3.6 million for "filesystem."
After trying to figure out where I went wrong for about 15 minutes... I
compared "file system" to filesystems in google...
"Furthermore, additional searches suggest that the split, so far as it's
significant, is more UNIX/Windows than Linux/Windows." Please don't hate
me for saying: duh!
"Leaving aside the questions of what is mainstream (since Windows
supports only 3 filesystems/ file systems and Linux supports at least a
couple of dozen), personally I'd question taking any company as an
authority on spelling." It's actually 5 (FAT12 and CDFS) but let's not
get into technical details as they do not dictate spelling.
Apart from my messed up google search, I based my preference for file
systems, as two words, based upon the following:
- I have almost a dozen books from respectable publishers (I admit, some
are from MS Press) that all use file system, not filesystem.
- Word (using English US spelling) marks the word filesystem as
incorrect and suggests file system as the correct spelling. I know that
means little, but still I agree with it, it 'looks' incorrect.
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