On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote: > > Decimal units (kilobyte 10^3, megabyte 10^6 etc...) were used in > > mke2fs manual page, however they was really meant to be binary units > > (kibibyte 2^10, mebibyte 2^20 etc...), so change the man pages to > > reflect that fact, even if it sounds weird. > > Ugh. Even Don Knuth agrees that the names sound stupid. (Of course, > his proposal of MMB and GGB haven't really gained much traction, > either.) > > I guess I'm willing to tolerate MiB and GiB, but since most people > will ignore the 'i' and pronounce them as "Megabyte" in everyday > speech. I really don't want to see "mebibyte or tibibytes" spelled > out explicitly anywhere, though. :-( > > And I think KiB is just wierd; I'm much rather see "1024 byte blocks" > than see "1 KiB blocks". Hi Ted, Fail enough, I'll avoid spelling "mebibytes or tebibytes" and use the abbreviations instead if you insist on it :) > > Personally I think the names are doomed. Even the editors for IEEE > and ANSI journals aren't enforcing this in style guidelines; memory > manufacturers are ignoring the IEC names entirely, and certain most > humans never use those names in every day speech. > > - Ted -Lukas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
