[ovirt-devel] Changing unit labels from GB, MB, KB to GiB, MiB, KiB

[Greg Sheremeta]

Related, in the dashboard:

Bug 1492397 – consistent binary prefix units for sizes (MiB, GiB)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492397

We probably only need one of the bugs.

Best wishes,
Greg


On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 6:29 AM, Andrej Krejcir <akrejcir at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the ovirt-engine UI, we use units KB, MB, GB with the meaning of powers
> of 1024 bytes, instead of powers of 1000. Some time ago, there was a
> bug[1] that has changed some of the GB labels to GiB, but not in all
> places. This causes inconsistent messages in the UI, where one part of a
> sentence uses GB and the other GiB.
>
> To make it consistent, I have posted patches[2] that change unit labels in
> other places as well.
>
> This change touches strings from different parts of the project, so I'm
> sending this email to let you know about it. Feel free to check the
> patches or comment if the change is correct.
>
> Andrej
>
>
> [1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1535714
> [2] - https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/project:ovirt-engine+topic:unit-relabel
>
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