hi, i'm forwarding this message because you staff of reiser filesystem might be interested in the following wish.
cheers domenico ----- Forwarded message from Beno�t Dejean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:36:42 +0200 From: Beno�t Dejean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#306199: reiserfsprogs: please use SI units the man says "The size parameter may have one of the optional modifiers K, M, G, which means the size parameter is given in kilo-, mega-, gigabytes respectively." it's unclear if K, M, G mean a) 2^10B, 2^20B, 2^30B b) 10^3B, 10^6B, 10^9B if (a), then the manpage should use SI units KiB, MiB and GiB. The BIPM brochure says: "These SI prefixes refer strictly to powers of 10. They should not be used to indicate powers of 2 (for example, one kilobit represents 1000 bits and not 1024 bits)" http://www1.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/si-brochure.pdf �3.1 Please consider using [KMG]iB instead of [kMG]B http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html Thanks. ----- End forwarded message ----- -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://people.debian.org/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50
