Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:32 -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
>>
>> 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
Why should they be?
Matthias
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