> Imo you are introducing a new meaning of "proper". Disk sizes have > been in base 2 units since forever. The fact that marketing material > uses base 10 units does not change what's proper.
Here's a suggestion for new prefixes in use of these units. Full prefix plus unit shown for example. Kaybytes Maybytes Gaybytes Taybytes Basically, you're allowed to be sloppy, and numbers can range roughly between the pow2 and pow10 values. The result is less exactness (bummer), but there is less confusion because there is less expectation of accuracy and exactness. The prefixes are intentionally silly as a result. we'll need support in the disklabel and fdisk programs, more questions in the install script. I'll send off a note to ICWM/CGPM/CCU/SI, hmm, which commitee do I send it to... The lesson? Any agency in control of rules that are simple and good, will soon forget that simple is one of the things that makes it good, and thus ruin it.
