Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] btrfs-progs: make btrfs qgroups show human readable sizes

[Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:46:33 +0100
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 01:53:39PM +0800, Fan Chengniang wrote:
> > make btrfs qgroups show human readable sizes
> > using --human-readable option, example:
> 
> That's too long to type and the idea was to add all the long options
> that force the specific unit base, ie. --kbytes/--mbytes/..., --raw,
> --si and --iec. We can possibly make the human readable the default
> because that's what I'd expect to see to have a quick overview and can
> use the other options otherwise.
> 
> The geopt parser accepts short options if they're unique, so --kb or
> even --k works as a very convenient shorcut for frequent commandline
> use.

FWIW both of the GNU coreutils "df" and "ls" use the "-h, --human-readable"
combination of options. Also the human-readable sizes are not the default format with those.
Why not follow the rule of the least surprise and just adopt the same behavior?

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With respect,
Roman