From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix capacity output to show MB/GB/TB/...
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:04:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BAB306.4050207@simon.arlott.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808311625.15655.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
On 31/08/08 15:25, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> On Sunday 31 August 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> BTW, I do appreciate Simon's point about df showing a different number.
>> How about we print:
>>
>> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 1099511627776 512-byte hardware sectors (563TB / 512TiB)
>>
>> (or perhaps a more realistic number ...)
>>
>> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 976562500000 512-byte hardware sectors (500TB / 455TiB)
>>
>> It's perhaps a more gentle way of informing our users that they may not
>> have quite as much capacity as they thought they had.
>
> Great idea! As a user/admin I would find this the best one of all.
>
> 1. All variants given.
> 2. Correct scientific units used.
I oppose all the "iB" forms. Has anyone tried pronouncing these?
Pee-bee-bytes?
Alternatively we could just remove the part in brackets from the message...
--
Simon Arlott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-31 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-30 14:08 [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix size output in MB Simon Arlott
2008-08-30 17:24 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-30 17:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-30 20:59 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-08-30 21:45 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-30 22:13 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-08-30 22:24 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-30 22:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-30 21:02 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-30 21:03 ` [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix capacity output to show MB/GB/TB/ Simon Arlott
2008-08-31 1:59 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-31 2:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-31 14:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-08-31 15:04 ` Simon Arlott [this message]
2008-08-31 15:08 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-31 15:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range James Bottomley
2008-08-31 15:20 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-31 15:41 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-31 15:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-31 18:54 ` [PATCH] mmc_block: use generic helper to print capacities Pierre Ossman
2008-09-05 20:09 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-05 20:52 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-09-05 21:03 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-06 8:57 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-09-03 3:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range Andrew Morton
2008-09-03 14:32 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-03 15:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-31 15:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] sd: use generic helper to print capacities in both binary and SI James Bottomley
2008-08-31 15:08 ` [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix capacity output to show MB/GB/TB/ Simon Arlott
2008-08-30 21:57 ` [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix size output in MB Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-30 22:22 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-31 12:27 ` James Smart
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