Switching to [KMGTPE]i prefixes?

[Warner Losh]

On Mar 25, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Xin LI wrote:

> FYI I have a patch and I have incorporated some of Alexander's idea.
> 
> Difference:
> 
> - Use of both HN_DIVISOR_1000 and HN_IEC_PREFIXES triggers an
> assertion.  I think it doesn't make sense to return since this is an
> API violation and we should just tell the caller explicitly;
> - DIVISOR_1000 and !1000 cases use just same prefixes, so merge them
> while keeping divisor intact;
> - Make prefixes table consistently long.  I have no strong opinion on
> this one, though, it's just what my original version used and I can
> change it to the way Alexander did if there is an advantage of doing
> that way.

I did this in my first iteration, but switched to the array version after.  Either is good, honestly.

> (Note, it seems that we use HN_ prefix for both 'scale' and 'flags', I
> have sorted them by value but HN_IEC_PREFIXES should really belong to
> the flags group).


How did you guys deal with programs like df that now need to do special buffer size hacks to get consistent results?

Warner