GEOM naming

As far as I can understand reading the documentation and looking at the FreeBSD GEOM source tree, the naming scheme is as follows:

• each transformation specification is written upper-case;
• each transformation class is written lower-case;
• each module that defines and implements a class lacks the initial g;
• usually each device that is perceived as a provider uses the module name as a way of indicating the service, such has using an extension or being under a folder with the module name if the /dev directory;
• each file in the above module has the g_ prefix, followed by the class name (lower-case) and an optional suffix with a leading underscore.

So for instance, in the case of the disk encryption we have that:

• GELI (upper-case) specifies the transformation, that is the contract for the service;
• geli (lower-case) is the class implementation, that is the code that implements the above contract;
• eli is the module that contains the source code, that is the folder in the source tree;
• eli is the extension of an encrypted device (e.g., /dev/da0s1e.eli);
• each file in the above source tree is named g_eli with an optional suffix.

As another example consider the mirroring facilities:

• GMIRROR is the transformation;
• gmirror is the class implementation;
• mirror is the module that contains the source code for the class implementation;
• usually mirrors are under /dev/mirror;
• each file is named g_mirror and something more.