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

[Artem B. Bityuckiy]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:

> 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"?
Hehe.

This is just widely used unit. And it is usually written like that. And 
now most utilities work with such. But if one wants and thinks it is 
reasonable, why not to use kib :-)
 
> 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
> 

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.