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dd (coreutils) 5.97 used power of 10 not 2 for calculating MB


From: Dat Head
Subject: dd (coreutils) 5.97 used power of 10 not 2 for calculating MB
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:20:14 -0500

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=100 bs=1024k
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.00933139 seconds, 11.2 GB/s
---------------------------^^^ should be 100 MB (or was this done on purpose to
match disk manufacturers lies!?)




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