
>>> We run Arla on SGI hardware too, on IRIX, and probably Linux.
Look:      ^^^^

You already call the system "arla" sometimes. Consistency is nice.

>> So, what do you call the layer when you run it on IRIX?
>> Surely you can't have two filesystems with the same name.
>
> xFs

Do you actually like that? You need to do that on Linux too,
since it is likely that there will be an xfs driver.

> Its all to much code to change right now, and I prefere to waste those
> hours of changing x to another letter (that is already use by some other
> people) to accully getting more functionallty and more bugs fixed.

I don't think anyone uses "arla" as a filesystem name.
Changes should be a simple search-and-replace operation.




