Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:49:44 +0200 (EET) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. |
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> > Hell, your kernel isn't even going to barf if the "40GB" disk turns > out to be 39,501,824, or some other less than 40GB-of-any-flavor > value. Why do a version of "40GB" that means 40,000,000,000 when > disks are *never* that size anyway? >
If you would pay more attention, you can see that on most drives there is a small note that says: 1MB = 1000000 bytes. This is why the drive capacity is smaller than the manufacturer says.
> Just because disk manufacturers are, um, creatve, with their marketing > numbers, do we have to mess with the numbers that are trustworthy? > > > -kb, the Kent who is not so sure he has *ever* seen anything in a > computer that really was such a big round decimal number, but the Kent > who sees precise round binary numbers frequently. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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