# Gateway names feedback

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-names-feedback/4992>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 28, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-names-feedback/4992 "2011-07-28T23:09:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-names-feedback/4992/1 "2011-07-28T23:09:08Z")

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Hi,

Some feedback re naming in Gateway module.

There is a "local" gw and a "shared FS" gw. Doesn't "local" really  
mean "local FS"? If that's so, I think it would be less confusing if  
"local" were named "localFS" and "fs" (which says nothing about this  
being shared and makes it sounds like it's local) were named  
"sharedFS". The thing I don't like is that "shared" is called "fs",  
as if "local" is not "fs".

## Otis

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-names-feedback/4992/2 "2011-07-29T06:18:36Z")

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Agreed, not the best naming, but its historic. The first gateways  
implementations were the shared ones, so they were named "fs", and "s3" for  
example. When the local one came out (and became the default), we had to  
live with it...

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Otis Gospodnetic \<  
[otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com)\> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Some feedback re naming in Gateway module.
> 
> There is a "local" gw and a "shared FS" gw. Doesn't "local" really  
> mean "local FS"? If that's so, I think it would be less confusing if  
> "local" were named "localFS" and "fs" (which says nothing about this  
> being shared and makes it sounds like it's local) were named  
> "sharedFS". The thing I don't like is that "shared" is called "fs",  
> as if "local" is not "fs".
> 
> ## Otis
> 
> Sematext is hiring search engineers - [Jobs - Sematext](http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-names-feedback/4992/3 "2017-07-06T03:58:54Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:58am UTC