Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
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