RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:32 -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> "David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what the
> >> rest of the world thinks of English measure. A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not
> >> 1000, dammit!
> >
> > Really? There is a metric byte-system? I've never heard of such a thing. I
> > even live in Canada and use the metric system!
>
> Yes, there is. As example here is part of the output of mdadm:
>
> Array Size : 468872448 (447.15 GiB 480.13 GB)
> Device Size : 156290816 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB)
> ^^^ ^^
>
> Note there is GiB (gibibyte) which is 1024 MiB (mebibyte) and there is
> GB (gigabyte) which is 1000 MB (megabyte).
If GB is decimal, then why aren't the sizes
468.87 GB
156.29 GB
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