From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@hp.com>
Cc: "fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix documentation of SI vs. binary prefixes
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:39:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140211163936.GI19057@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B4029548A6481@G9W0745.americas.hpqcorp.net>
On Tue, Feb 11 2014, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
> fio specifies SI and binary units backwards, presumably for
> compatibility with old scripts. The description in HOWTO and the man
> page should acknowledge this. I suggest fixing it something like
> this.
It's weird how that happened, I don't even remember, to be honest. I
would agree with John here that we just need to make the painful switch,
and potentially add a switch for backwards compatability.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-11 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-11 0:40 [PATCH] Fix documentation of SI vs. binary prefixes Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-02-11 4:45 ` John Williams
2014-02-11 16:39 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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