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Message-ID: <48BAB306.4050207@simon.arlott.org.uk> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:04:38 +0100 From: Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu> To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de> CC: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix capacity output to show MB/GB/TB/... On 31/08/08 15:25, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > On Sunday 31 August 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> BTW, I do appreciate Simon's point about df showing a different number. >> How about we print: >> >> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 1099511627776 512-byte hardware sectors (563TB / 512TiB) >> >> (or perhaps a more realistic number ...) >> >> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 976562500000 512-byte hardware sectors (500TB / 455TiB) >> >> It's perhaps a more gentle way of informing our users that they may not >> have quite as much capacity as they thought they had. > > Great idea! As a user/admin I would find this the best one of all. > > 1. All variants given. > 2. Correct scientific units used. I oppose all the "iB" forms. Has anyone tried pronouncing these? Pee-bee-bytes? Alternatively we could just remove the part in brackets from the message... -- Simon Arlott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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