"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what the
>> rest of the world thinks of English measure. A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not
>> 1000, dammit!
>
> Really? There is a metric byte-system? I've never heard of such a thing. I
> even live in Canada and use the metric system!
Yes, there is. As example here is part of the output of mdadm:
Array Size : 468872448 (447.15 GiB 480.13 GB)
Device Size : 156290816 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB)
^^^ ^^
Note there is GiB (gibibyte) which is 1024 MiB (mebibyte) and there is
GB (gigabyte) which is 1000 MB (megabyte).
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
Matthias
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