Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It's just that storage vendors broke the computer rule and went with 1000. > > 1024 etc. is (should be) natural to disks because the sector size > is 512 B, 2048 B or something like that.
But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to disk size. A disk can have any odd number of sectors. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
