The following reply was made to PR kern/32205; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/32205: Use standard units for memory/media sizes
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:47:05 +0200

 Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
 
 >  IMHO disks should stay with the binary units, but indeed should
 >  be labeled MiB or GiB. It's the HDD manufactures that are in the
 >  wrong here. Their product is sold by decimal bytes yet the real
 >  unit is sectors. The binary units are much better suited to
 >  measuring sectors.
 
 I don't know any software except lynx, even not on NetBSD, that uses
 these "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", etc. units.
 
 In fact, the only times I've seen these units mentioned are a
 few years ago in an OpenBSD list; I think they concluded with not using
 these units but I may be wrong.
 
 The second time is now.
 
 Can we prefer convenience over correctness in this case and not
 use these units? :)
 
 -e.
 
 -- 
 Elad Efrat