running out of space dd'ing JFFS2 image to /dev/mtdblock/0

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:22 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > ???
> >
> > It's just missing the k and M suffixes. So its easy to fix.
>
> Don't add k and M. Those are power-of-ten and almost never what the
> users wants. Add Ki and Mi only.

i agree completely, but i thought some of the recognized suffixes were
"KiB", "MiB" and so on.  anyway, i was pretty sure that even a
suggestion this innocuous was going to generate some discussion.

i'll leave it up to the gurus here to decide how they want to
standardize this.

rday