Re: human-friendly ulimit values?

[Martin D Kealey]

Personally I don't have any problem with 8000000 kB == 8 GB or 104857600
KiB == 100 GiB, but it's not as if having nice round power-of-two numbers
really matters in *this* case, where 1075000000 KiB is close enough to 1
TiB. But I guess not everyone is as comfortable with mental arithmetic.

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 13:59, Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> What position does it take on the "GB" vs. "GiB" business?
>

For that matter, what position does it take on megabytes (MB) vs millibits
(mb)?

Should fractions be allowed? If so, how should they be rounded?
When should values be displayed as MiB or GiB or TiB? With fractions, or
rounded?
Should octal or hexadecimal be allowed (since they're easier to express
powers of two)?

-Martin