On 05/16/2014 11:01 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2014, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> The attached patch changes the output to: >> >> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=256M count=2 >> 2+0 records in >> 2+0 records out >> 536870912 bytes (512 MiB) copied, 0.152887 s, 3.3 GiB/s > > Thanks! > What about just "512 M" which looks IMO better, is a valid input unit > and is explained in the man page.
That would be less clear I think since in standards notation, 512M is 512000000. Also adding the B removes any ambiguity as to whether this referred to bytes of blocks. cheers, Pádraig.
