bug#17505: Pádraig: does this solve your consistency concern? (was bug#17505: dd statistics output)

2014-07-28 Thread Christian Groessler
On 07/27/14 19:11, Linda Walsh wrote: It is more common to specify transfer sizes in SI and mean IEC if you are in the US where the digital computer was created. People in the US have not adopted SI units and many wouldn't know a meter from a molehill, so SI units aren't the first thing that

bug#17505: Pádraig: does this solve your consistency concern? (was bug#17505: dd statistics output)

2014-07-28 Thread Linda Walsh
Christian Groessler wrote: On 07/27/14 19:11, Linda Walsh wrote: It is more common to specify transfer sizes in SI and mean IEC if you are in the US where the digital computer was created. People in the US have not adopted SI units and many wouldn't know a meter from a molehill, so SI units

bug#17505: Pádraig: does this solve your consistency concern? (was bug#17505: dd statistics output)

2014-07-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Pádraig Brady wrote: That was the original approach but is a bit worse than the dynamic approach since it's common to specify transfer sizes in IEC units for SI sized data. It is more common to specify transfer sizes in SI and mean IEC if you are in the US where the digital computer was

bug#17505: Pádraig: does this solve your consistency concern? (was bug#17505: dd statistics output)

2014-07-26 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 07/26/2014 02:35 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Pádraig: you may have missed this as it was a reply to an old thread, but, changing the subj and composing as new should prevent that (I hope) You were concerned that the user would get different outputs based on the previously suggested

bug#17505: Pádraig: does this solve your consistency concern? (was bug#17505: dd statistics output)

2014-07-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Pádraig: you may have missed this as it was a reply to an old thread, but, changing the subj and composing as new should prevent that (I hope) You were concerned that the user would get different outputs based on the previously suggested algorithm -- as well as possibly different output when