https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10847
Summary: inconsistent units should be unified and follow SI/IEC
standard
Product: rsync
Version: 3.1.1
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: trivial
Priority: P5
Component: core
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
QAContact: [email protected]
rsync prints units not conistent. As shown in a typical output like in
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10580
I suggest
* to follow SI prefix standard [1] and add a single space between the value and
the unit:
3.13G -> 3.13 GB
* to note all units in a unique way:
now it is "K bytes/sec" and "kB/s"
* to chose between binary IEC [2] units and SI units (perhaps ask the user for
an option? --iec --si) and wite a short note in the man page like 1 kB = 1000
Byte
or 1 KiB = 1024 B.
* to note "seconds" with the SI symbol "s" [3]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
[2] http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
[3] http://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/
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