Alpha 1 - Manifest?

[Martin Pitt]

Steve Langasek [2012-06-04 12:37 -0700]:
> Anyway, I bring this up because the hallway discussion at the latest UDS
> seemed to converge on 750MiB (== 786MB) for the image size for 12.10

Ah, ok; sorry, then I misremembered.

> The question is, over the long term does it make more sense to have images
> sized in MiB or MB?  Is a 1GB USB stick really 1GB, or is it 1GiB?

I checked the 4 USB Sticks that I have, as a random sample. Their
sizes are:

 63.0 MiB == 66.1 MB
 981 MiB == 1028.6 MB
 7.5 GiB == 8.0 GB
 29.9 GiB == 32.1 GB

So except for the really really old 64 MB one, the others are in GB,
not GiB.

> I'm personally fine with either 800MB or 750MiB (786MB) as a target for this
> cycle, I just want to make sure we understand our trajectory for future
> releases and that the limit in quantal makes sense as a point on that
> trajectory.

Right, same here. It seems the main confusion is that everyone seems
to think the decision is someone else's. :-)

Martin
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