> Hello all, > > In Debian Squeeze, the get_volume_group_list function from > Linux::LVM returns sizes in GiB instead of GB, and setup-storage > fails on these. > As the module documentation says units are in GB, it looks to me > like a bug in Linux::LVM, caused by a new default behavior of > vgdisplay, which uses now Gib as default unit. > > However, I haven't seen such a bug report, so my observation may be > wrong. Should I open a bug report? > > For now I have patched setup-storage so that it ignores the extra 'i'. >
It's truely easy to make setup-storage eat this extra 'i', but what is the correct solution? It seems that LVM switched over to IEC-proposed Gi prefixes to mean 1024*1024*1024 bytes; should we then also change the semantics of disk_config files where disk sda primary / 80G ext3 rw means 80 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes and is actually smaller than disk sda primary / 80Gi ext3 rw ?? I guess this will cause quite a lot of confusion, but it would in some sense be "correct". For the moment I'll just add a eat-the-i-patch to setup-storage. Best, Michael
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