On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 4:29 AM, Joao Eduardo Luis <joao@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/07/2018 11:18 AM, John Spray wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 8:05 PM Sage Weil <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub wrote:
>>>> Option #3?
>>>>
>>>> "3 objects"
>>>> "23k objects"
>>>> "3.4M objects"
>>>> "2.3k PGs"
>>>
>>> Yeah I like that better. It's slightly inconstent with the EIC units, tho
>>>
>>> "1 B"
>>> "3.2 KiB"
>>> "2.3 PiB"
>>
>> I like option 3 too. I think it's okay to have a different format for
>> counts ("1k objects") than we would for distances/times ("1 km")
>
> Agreed. Especially because one specifies counts (e.g., 1k objects) and
> the other specifies units (e.g., 2.3 PiB).
>
> And anything else kinda feels weird.
Technically speaking, "objects" is a unit. (Compare to Mole as an SI
unit which is defined count of atoms/molecules.)
Maybe we can coin an SI unit for objects: Octo which is 8 objects. See
what I did there?
--
Patrick Donnelly
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