[OpenAFS-devel] Brief proposal on numbers

[John Hascall]

I don't suppose it can be changed, but the whole idea
of measuring and doling out volume-quota using 1KB units
seems pretty silly these days.  In the admin system we
have wrapping this, we're currently working in units of
100MB and may well go to 1GBs soon.

John


> I'm all in favor of not mixing powers of two with ten.  So I agree that 1g =
> 1000m (1,024,000,000) is not something I want to think about.
> 
> But if you can think of just blocks, and forget that they contain 1024
> bytes, it might make sense to count them in powers of ten.  That's sort of
> what we do today, both with "fs setquota" and with standard commands like
> "df".
> 
> I used to resist the ISO standard power-of-two prefixes KiB, MiB, etc as
> being silly, but as the error grows 2.4% with each "generation" we're going
> to have to distinguish when we get up to tera and peta.
> 
> So I guess I don't have an answer for you but I feel your pain.
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