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(units/base 2 vs base 10)</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20What%20is%20Mageia%27s%20policy%20reagarding%20filesize%0A%20display%3F%20%28units/base%202%20vs%20base%2010%29&In-Reply-To=%3C4FE9E4B6.9020900%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? (units/base 2 vs base 10)">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Tue Jun 26 18:35:02 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016854.html">[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? (units/base 2 vs base 10) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016847.html">[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? (units/base 2 vs base 10) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16851">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16851">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16851">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16851">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Christian Lohmaier at 26/06/12 16:51 did gyre and gimble: +><i> Hi Colin, *, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote: +</I>>><i> 'Twas brillig, and Christian Lohmaier at 26/06/12 15:26 did gyre and gimble: +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> What about if they transfer a file from OSX to Linux? OSX uses base 10: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> can not confirm, see +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://frupic.frubar.net/25973">http://frupic.frubar.net/25973</A> +</I> +Well I literally just confirmed it on the OSX box next to me, so take it +as you like. It said, literally: "10.5MB on disk". This was both in +finder itself in the little file preview and in the "Get Info" dialog +which also showed the size in bytes in brackets. + +I'm not an expert but the above screen shot looks like a very old +version of OSX. + +>><i> Personally I don't give a flying fig what's shown :) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I take that as you're not opposing a patch to change nautilus' +</I>><i> file-size-display. +</I> +I'm saying I don't really care what's shown. If given the choice between +maintaining patched downstream behaviour vs. unpatched upstream +behaviour I'd take the latter seeing as it is cleaner and I don't +personally care which is shown. + +So based purely on the principle of keeping downstream patching as light +as possible, I'd be against such a change. I should point out that this +is an opinion that is not based on the functionality of the change +itself, just general principles, so I was deliberately trying not to +voice a particular opinion on the functionality itself :) + +I don't think I ever use any summarised value for knowing anything more +than the rough size of a file - if I need to know it's size properly, I +use bytes - anything that displays things with an M or G suffix is an +approximation to me and I don't really care if that approximation is +somewhat ambiguous due to the base used). + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> + + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016854.html">[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? 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