'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 24/02/14 22:08 did gyre and gimble: > * systemd will now understand the usual M, K, G, T suffixes > according to SI conventions (i.e. to the base 1000) when > referring to throughput and hardware metrics. It will stay > with IEC conventions (i.e. to the base 1024) for software > metrics, according to what is customary according to > Wikipedia. We explicitly document which base applies for > each configuration option.
It would seem to me that use of upper and lower case suffixes is fairly wide-spread (at least in my head) for choosing which base (1000 vs 1024). Of course I can't remember which is which, but perhaps using this approach would actually be better - and default values can just use whichever letter-case they deem appropriate for the use-case. I guess what I mean to say is that a general rule is easier to grok than a per-directive rule, although I may have missed some important subtleties and back discussion here. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
