Sizes and notation (was: RAID Sizes)

[max@hyre.net]

[Sorry about not using `Reply'; my mail is weirdly broken at the
moment.]

   Dear Debianistas:

   The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved.  Take a
look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes
It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt this.

Willie Wonka wrote:
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote:
>>>If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes*

   This is due to disk manufacturer's duplicity.

>>No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'.

   There is no ``big K'', though there's now a big Ki.  (And I
always wondered how one built a millibit, as in ``10 mbps
network''.

> So what do you propose as a solution ??

   It's been taken care of.  See above.

> 150MB and 1500mb (which are both correct)

   Only if you wish to lower the hair content of techie's heads.


        Yours for sanity,

                Max Hyre