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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:25:36 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
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Hi!

> > This change came as a patch from David Woodhouse.  I think the new
> > abbreviations are awful ugly, myself, but they do have the virtue of
> > not being ambiguous.  So I swallowed hard and took the patch.
> > 
> 
> This could even have the nice side effect of teaching something to Linux 
> newbies (mainly the fact that the difference between 2^10 and 10^3 
> matters in some areas). I see 2 cases :
> 
> - already encountered the kiB/MiB/GiB notation and understood the 
> meaning: no problem if we take out of the equation the aesthetic of the 
> abreviations.

Heh, is it kiB or KiB? Anyway, I guess yes MiB units should be used.
We already have them in dmesg output. (And btw it confused me because
it reported *disk size* in MiB.... So I assumed MiB must be 10e6).

								Pavel
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