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Erik Krogen edited comment on HDFS-14377 at 3/19/19 3:11 PM:
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[~anu], NIST and IEC have [recommended use of binary
prefixes|https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html] since 1998, and in
2008 ISO [standardized and recommended|https://www.iso.org/standard/31898.html]
their use. See more
[here|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Adoption_by_IEC,_NIST_and_ISO].
was (Author: xkrogen):
[~anu], NIST and IEC have [recommended use of binary
prefixes|https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html] since 1998, and in
[2008 ISO|https://www.iso.org/standard/31898.html] standardized and recommended
their use. See more
[here|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Adoption_by_IEC,_NIST_and_ISO].
> Incorrect unit abbreviations shown for fmt_bytes
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>
> Key: HDFS-14377
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-14377
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Danny Becker
> Priority: Trivial
> Attachments: HDFS-14377.000.patch
>
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> The function fmt_bytes show the abbreviations for Terabyte, Petabyte, etc.
> the standard metric system units for data storage units. The function however
> divides by a factor of 1024, which is the factor used for Pebibyte, Tebibyte,
> etc. Change the abbreviations from TB, PB, etc to TiB, PiB, etc.
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