From: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Fix how we treat user-spcified filesystem size
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:05:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D499CDB.80107@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=5QWtEc+mRnveErm1AE4oLZAZwGOmLP69cx2dx@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/02/2011 09:56 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> Right, that's why there is the "rant" about it being called kilobytes,
>> but still treated as binary, not decimal unit. But Andreas is right
>> that it is not necessary to have one paragraph grumbling about the
>> stupid-sounding kibibytes and so on.
>>
>> So, what I am going to do is to cope with the standard and use those
>> stupid-sounding binary prefixes (kibi- etc.), remove the "rant" and add
>> one line note for people to be really sure that it is meant to be a
>> binary unit.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Lukas
> Lukas,
>
> I'm glad you did that. I see too often:
>
> Fdisk is broken, I can only put a 150 gigabyte partition on my 160
> gigabyte drive.
>
> Hopefully people will realize the difference when they see its a 150
> Gibibyte partition on a 160 Gigabyte drive.
That's wishful thinking.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-02 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-01 19:18 [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Fix how we treat user-spcified filesystem size Lukas Czerner
2011-02-01 20:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-01 21:08 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-02-01 21:57 ` Greg Freemyer
2011-02-02 10:12 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-02-02 17:56 ` Greg Freemyer
2011-02-02 18:05 ` Sunil Mushran [this message]
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