Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Larry McVoy) | Subject | GB vs MB - a proposal | Date | 17 Dec 1996 08:11:05 GMT |
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Folks, I've had to deal with GB == power of 2 or 10 quite a bit in government contracts and with lmbench result reporting. There are a bunch of good arguments on both sides of the issue. I've come up with the following "standard" which I use in the new lmbench:
mb = 2^20 MB = 1,000,000
and so on. It seems to cause the least pain. I can still say
lmdd if=/dev/rsda0 bs=5k
and get 5*1024, which is a 512 byte block aligned request, which is what a lot of unix systems want.
MB and mb don't conflict with the commonly used Mb which typically means Mbits.
I know you will probably have issues with this, but can you deal? -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804
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