Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932583AbXAWBwx (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:52:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932596AbXAWBwx (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:52:53 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:54644 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932583AbXAWBww (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:52:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:45:38 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Krzysztof Halasa cc: Andreas Schwab , Heikki Orsila , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani , Leon Woestenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <20070121150618.GA11613@zakalwe.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 23 On Jan 23 2007 02:04, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >Andreas Schwab writes: > >> But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to >> disk size. A disk can have any odd number of sectors. > >But the manufacturers don't count in sectors. > >It should be consistent, though. "How many GB of disk space do you >need to store 2 GB of USB flash, and how many to store 2 GB RAM image"? Here's the marketing gap a company could jump in: "first to count in real GB" -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/