On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:07:01AM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:27:36AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > you will then end up with some of them switching to dreadful MiB etc. ;) > > > > Kinda off topic and I take it you were being sarcastic, but your > > mentioning of the "dreadful MiB" reminded me about the LibreOffice > > spreadsheet I'm using to calculate from GiB/GB to sectors so that I can > > have disklabel(8) partition my harddisks according to standard units. > > > > Are there strong opinions against following standards and start > > converting to the proper terms for gigabytes (decimal, base 10, 1GB = > > 1000^3 bytes) and gibibytes (binary, base 2, 1 GiB = 1024^3 bytes)? > > There are violent and possibly homicidal opinions against such a > move. Mine being one. gibi is gibberish.
At least I did not ask which shell is best or why gimp can't be part of base.. I agree that unit names like kibi, mibi and gibi may seem somewhat ridiculous, but the point, in my view, is that kilo and giga are base-10 (metric) values. Maybe the JEDEC/IEC units will make sense the day we have disks with capacities in the excess of 2^1000 bytes?
