[DRBD-user] Re: rate limit is 700M?

Evert evert at poboxes.info
Wed Feb 15 10:17:49 CET 2006

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Stephan Rattai wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 15:30 schrieb Saul, Markus:
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>
>>> Von: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com
>>> [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] Im Auftrag von Stephan Rattai
>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 13:56
>>> An: drbd-user at linbit.com
>>> Betreff: Re: [DRBD-user] rate limit is 700M?
>>>
>>> Sure, 250 M is nonsense, I was just was just thinking about a 2 Gb fc
>>> interface I've been messing around with. Dividing 2000 by 8 is not quite
>>> correct, just a bad habit. Anyway this seems not as important to me as
>>> these are values I've never seen in reality.
>> Well, I think it's important (at least to myself) not to loose the overview
>> of the used units. Especially in the area of bits and bytes, since they are
>> mostly loosely used. Not only in the verbal but also the written language.
>>
>> And I stepped myself into the trap:
> 
> Me, too, considering that as far as I know according to IEC 60027-2 'G'(b) 
> stands for 'Giga'(bit) and as such for 10^9 thus dividing 2000 by 8 leading 
> to 250 would be correct for 2Gb. Opposed to 2Gib. One could discuss about M 
> vs. Mi and their friends for quite a while and I think when it comes to 
> Petabytes vs. Pebibytes in terms of capacity there is quite a remarkable 
> difference but in terms of Gbit NIC I don't think of it as important. Also I 
> haven't heard anyone using kibi and the likes before. 
> 
> But I really do not need to discuss about this. 
> 
> However I still don't know why drbd offers the 'G' as suffix although the 
> limit seems to be 700000K....Byte.

Perhaps (for example) 'rate = 0.6G' is an valid value?   ;-)


Regards,
  Evert




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