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bug#17505: Interface inconsistency, use of intelligent defaults.
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#17505: Interface inconsistency, use of intelligent defaults. |
Date: |
Fri, 16 May 2014 11:19:33 +0100 |
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On 05/16/2014 11:01 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> The attached patch changes the output to:
>>
>> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=256M count=2
>> 2+0 records in
>> 2+0 records out
>> 536870912 bytes (512 MiB) copied, 0.152887 s, 3.3 GiB/s
>
> Thanks!
> What about just "512 M" which looks IMO better, is a valid input unit
> and is explained in the man page.
That would be less clear I think since in
standards notation, 512M is 512000000.
Also adding the B removes any ambiguity
as to whether this referred to bytes of blocks.
cheers,
Pádraig.
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