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

Artem B. Bityuckiy dedekind at infradead.org
Mon Jan 31 12:11:38 EST 2005


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 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.
Nobody told about not to use KiB/MiB. It wos told about not to us K and M, 
like 10K, 100M. Use 10KiB, 100MiB instead.

> 
> i'll leave it up to the gurus here to decide how they want to
> standardize this.
> 
> rday
> 
> 
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Artem B. Bityuckiy,
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