From: Sunil Mushran Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Fix how we treat user-spcified filesystem size Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:05:15 -0800 Message-ID: <4D499CDB.80107@oracle.com> References: <1296587912-16756-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> <140BFB14-31E6-4E76-B1DA-5CD8F54FDD5B@dilger.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lukas Czerner , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu To: Greg Freemyer Return-path: Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:49905 "EHLO rcsinet10.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754417Ab1BBSGe (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:06:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.