From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 17:03:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8380E1065670 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:03:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (bsdimp.com [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A3B8FC14 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:03:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p0BGxbdL028290; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:59:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Message-ID: <4D2C8C77.4000504@bsdimp.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:59:35 -0700 From: Warner Losh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Cran References: <4D28EB32.9090807@freebsd.org> <20110109030056.0000613f@unknown> <4D2B0267.6020505@bsdimp.com> <20110111130256.000044d9@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20110111130256.000044d9@unknown> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall ISO images X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:03:43 -0000 On 01/11/2011 06:02, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:58:15 -0700 > Warner Losh wrote: > >> That raises the question: The computer industry has given in and >> generally says 'G' mean 10^9 not 2^30. The latter is what Gi means. >> While bletcherous to my eye, I think we should consider adopting this >> standard at some point. > I'm not sure the industry in general has given in - for example I > haven't seen any 2 GiB memory modules for sale. Apple has > instead changed the meaning of GB in OS X when used to refer to disks - > http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 Right, Apple is using G == 10^9 rather than 2^30 now. That's the proposed change I was asking about. If nothing else, Humanize_number should support producing Gi for 2^30... Memory is about the last thing to change here, mostly because it is impossible, so far, to sell memory that isn't a Nxpower-of-2. Warner