I stated what I thought the subject stood for; "bull s**t storage" and heard a lot of other definitions. Upon checking wikipedia, I did not find what I understood it meant:It may be that I first heard it in 1961 while coding on a Swedish machine with rotating magnetic drum main storage. It was uninitialized and an often source of errors due to addressing errors.

Just wondering if others had a similar understanding...

Dave

Just means Broken Social Scene to me.

Almost every acronym or word used in IT is used for more than one purpose and has different meanings depending on who uses it.

I worked on Andersen's (now Accenture) case tool called Foundation and it called its runs "instances". Later when I started working on Oracle I found it called each database an "instance".

For years I knew "core" files to be memory core dumps from processes that had died. Later Oracle and others started using that as a directory name. (Which caused issues as many folks had cron jobs to delete "core" files periodically.)

I'm not picking on Oracle - just happens to be two examples of which I can think.

That is why often when posting/emailing a message I will first put the full name then follow it with the acronym or abbreviation in parentheses on first use within the post. e.g. Logical Volume (LV). Then when I use LV later in the post it should be clear I mean Logical Volume rather than lefthanded vertebrate as some zoologist that dabbles in Linux might think.

P.S. There's been many a post at LQ that I opened thinking I might be able to assist only to find the acronym or word they used in the title has nothing to do with what I thought when I saw that acronym or word.