>Carson Gaspar wrote: >>> Not quite. >>> 11 x 10^12 =~ 10.004 x (1024^4). >>> >>> So, the 'zpool list' is right on, at "10T" available. >> >> Duh, I was doing GiB math (y = x * 10^9 / 2^20), not TiB math (y = x * >> 10^12 / 2^40). >> >> Thanks for the correction. >> >You're welcome. :-) > > >On a not-completely-on-topic note: > >Has there been a consideration by anyone to do a class-action lawsuit >for false advertising on this? I know they now have to include the "1GB >= 1,000,000,000 bytes" thing in their specs and somewhere on the box, >but just because I say "1 L = 0.9 metric liters" somewhere on the box, >it shouldn't mean that I should be able to avertise in huge letters "2 L >bottle of Coke" on the outside of the package...
I think such attempts have been done and I think one was settled by Western Digital. https://www.wdc.com/settlement/docs/document20.htm This was in 2006. I was apparently part of the 'class' as I had a disk registered; I think they gave some software. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
