linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Fix how we treat user-spcified filesystem size

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Date:	Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:05:15 -0800
From:	Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@...cle.com>
To:	Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com>
CC:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Fix how we treat user-spcified filesystem
 size

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.
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