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I guess the joke is you can scale a file system or a fish, but can only tune a file system?
by gmassman 6mo ago
I guess the joke is you can scale a file system or a fish, but can only tune a file system?
- fragmede 6mo agoTuna is a type of fish so the joke is that they sound the same.
- SoftTalker 6mo agoThere was also the record You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish by REO Speedwagon, I had assumed that's what the tunefs man page was referencing as that was a best-selling record at around the time Unix was being developed.
- throwanem 6mo agoYes. It had been a popular joke in the US, I believe about a generation before. (Probably the joke came in around the same time as canned tuna.)