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- Submitted-by: hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L Hansen)
-
- >The committee chose 512, not because they think users prefer it, but
- >for totally unrelated reasons having to do with how BSD and System V
- >behave. I think this decision should be made based on the preferences
- >of actual users. If the users tell the committee what they want, the
- >committee may yet listen.
-
- As a user, I much prefer the use of 512. Why? It's not because it's such a
- better value than any other value, but because it's consistent with all the
- other tools which talk in terms of "blocks". All I have to remember is that
- "A block is a block is a block" and "A block consists of 512 bytes". I don't
- have to remember that this command uses 1024 bytes for its blocks, and this
- command uses 512 bytes for its blocks, and that one uses 2048 for its
- blocks. If EVERYTHING uses the same value, then there is LESS confusion!
-
- I've used systems where some things were in one unit and others were in
- other units, but both uses the same term, and that was much more confusing.
-
- >Which of these two alternatives would you prefer, and how much?
- >* df and du output is in units of 1024.
- >* df and du is in units of 512 unless you use -k.
-
- Definitely the latter.
-
- Tony Hansen
- hansen@pegasus.att.com, tony@attmail.com
- att!pegasus!hansen, attmail!tony
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- Volume-Number: Volume 24, Number 97
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