Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Jun 1 21:54:03 UTC 2009


Benjamin Drung wrote:
> On Mon Jun 1 04:15:19 BST 2009 Remco wrote:
>   
>> I have a file here of "701.2 MB", which is "735270912 bytes". Now, if
>> it really *were* 701.2 MB, then it would be 701200000 bytes. So that's
>> clearly base 2, which should be MiB.
>>     
>
> That is what the bug report is about. Using MiB for values, wich are base 2.
>
> So is there anybody who wants to keep the old confusing behaviour?
>
>   
/me raises hand.




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