From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAC51387FD for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 06:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2063EE0A7F; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 06:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A9E4E0A7E for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 06:32:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s316WNac030928 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:32:23 +0200 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.7/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s316WLBU017973; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:32:21 +0200 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s316WLLo017968; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:32:21 +0200 Message-ID: <21306.23925.376496.556611@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:32:21 +0200 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-04-08 In-Reply-To: <20140401002011.GA7386@laptop.home> References: <53342A5F.70903@gentoo.org> <5339AC69.3000307@gentoo.org> <2031188.fx5o40VAL2@iris> <20140401002011.GA7386@laptop.home> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="pgp+signed+1KSdE15EvA0smCQ"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b3451fce-5237-4f8b-ba79-e2ac87dbec23 X-Archives-Hash: 840477f49b4fc93cae790564722f6759 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --pgp+signed+1KSdE15EvA0smCQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:12:18PM -0400, Douglas James Dunn wrote: >> On Monday, March 31, 2014 01:56:57 PM Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> > This is very much old "standard" vs new standard in terms of naming. >> > For those of us that have been around long enough, Mega/Kilo/etc have >> > always meant 1024 when addressing computational storage, as per for >> > instance ANSI/IEEE Std 1084-1986. However, as people know this did >> > become (or has always been) used ambiguously and so these terms were >> > apparently deprecated in favour of MiB, KiB etc by the IEC starting at >> > around 1996 and with formal adoption 1999 with IEC 60027-2 Amendment 2 >> > (and expanded adoption in ISO/IEC IEC 80000-13:2008) >> > >> > [*] source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix >> > >> > +1 for usage of {K,M,G,T,...}iB as per standard. >> >> +1, the IEC is the way everyone is going, for reference >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes > +1 for me too on this. The rationale for using the IEC prefixes in Linux summarises things well: | Best practice in editing a technical or standards document is to | (a) avoid ambiguous usages, seek clarity and precision; and | (b) to use, follow and reference international standards. So, +1 from me too. Ulrich [1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1068.html --pgp+signed+1KSdE15EvA0smCQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJTOl1lAAoJEMMJBoUcYcJzTogIALOgVMkjHnZ2348O3ep1+ntJ +75pZRC65kDZPh1O8vzeiAZd8UbgSv/of0R5K2qCOtqX6Iz29Hh26l6DNijL1Gl4 nLJ5Esfa5ZyS6Qly8aVMt82woW/dgZdF+nMJHEAeyJrAgjoFSKYmtnrokz1aj+48 Jgu1evcPN/SXu/wrOLPUlBLD/nROhuQSSpjNJUtB62DY2doj9NxHopSO5llZ9oyF JFsW7dfxeTH/UUFTNcVCrTAR/rFHRk28y13HziEmbLx+u+Ofxki7OTkoxZ+aUJxv Td/oMCI8eZtLYJebibPrUSl3mkVBrtOzSBng8vqnPBuhckLrzivXTmsez/q+6Dg= =X/2e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp+signed+1KSdE15EvA0smCQ--