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

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 31 January 2005 17:11:38 +0000, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> > 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.

What information does the "B" in "10KiB" contain?  And why is it "Ki"
instead of the correct "ki"?

Robert: please don't just sit there and wait for someone else to do
your work.  Send a patch.  If it's wrong, people will comment.  Right
now, this discussion is completely academic.

Jörn

-- 
Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then
don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.
-- Rob Pike