> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luciano Rocha
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:29 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: Vsftpd & Iscsi - fast enough
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:14:17PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabit
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte
> >
> > I always thought 10^6 was Mib/MiB and 2^10 was Mb/MB to
> keep the older
> > manuals and papers consistent, but that doesn't seem to match the
> > wikipedia... Is the wikipedia correct?
>
> Yes:
> http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Well there goes the neighborhood... Now I have to talk memory in
MiB and GiB and comm and storage in MB and GB.
Anyways datacom and storage has always been base 10, why, well I'll
leave that to the conspiracy theorists.
-Ross
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