Messages in this thread | | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix capacity output to show MB/GB/TB/... | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:25:14 +0200 |
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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 would ACK that one, if you provide a small helper for that printout somehwere in block/{genhd,blk-core}.c
Best Regards
Ingo Oeser
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