On 3-1-2018 00:44, Dan Mick wrote: > On 01/02/2018 08:54 AM, John Spray wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Jan Fajerski <jfajerski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi lists, >>> Currently the ceph status output formats all numbers with binary unit >>> prefixes, i.e. 1MB equals 1048576 bytes and an object count of 1M equals >>> 1048576 objects. I received a bug report from a user that printing object >>> counts with a base 2 multiplier is confusing (I agree) so I opened a bug and >>> https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/19117. >>> In the PR discussion a couple of questions arose that I'd like to get some >>> opinions on: >> >>> - Should we print binary unit prefixes (MiB, GiB, ...) since that would be >>> technically correct? >> >> I'm not a fan of the technically correct base 2 units -- they're still >> relatively rarely used, and I've spent most of my life using kB to >> mean 1024, not 1000. >> >>> - Should counters (like object counts) be formatted with a base 10 >>> multiplier or a multiplier woth base 2? >> >> I prefer base 2 for any dimensionless quantities (or rates thereof) in >> computing. Metres and kilograms go in base 10, bytes go in base 2. >> >> It's all very subjective and a matter of opinion of course, and my >> feelings aren't particularly strong :-) >> >> John > > 100% agreed. "iB" is an affectation IMO. But I'm grumpy and old. +1 on all 3 cases. :) --WjW -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
