On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:20 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > David Zeuthen wrote: > > > Ideally this one needs to take another parameter indicating whether you > > want 1kb = 1000 bytes or 1kb = 1024 bytes. > > > > The reason is that we want to generate nice display names in the volume > > monitor; for ordinary media you want 1000 (to match the label on the > > media); for optical discs you normally want 1024. gnome-vfs has this > > terrible bug where it uses 1024 so you get the label "61.2 MB" media > > even when the media itself says 64MB. This is kinda like punching the > > user right in the face. It's not a mistake we should make for the new > > shiny gvfs stuff. > > Mistake? That's correct behavior. It's not our fault the storage > companies lie and use base-10 kB/MB/GB when everyone else uses base-2, > and in fact they've been successfully sued in the US for doing this. > Reporting the *actual* size of the media in base-2 units is the right > way to go everywhere.
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