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Posted to dev@cloudstack.apache.org by "Mike Tutkowski (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2013/02/21 18:36:13 UTC

[jira] [Created] (CLOUDSTACK-1359) Clarify what we mean by GB in CloudStack documentation

Mike Tutkowski created CLOUDSTACK-1359:
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             Summary: Clarify what we mean by GB in CloudStack documentation
                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-1359
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1359
             Project: CloudStack
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
          Components: Doc
    Affects Versions: 4.0.0, pre-4.0.0
         Environment: Here is an example page with this issue:  http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/docs/api/apidocs-4.0.0/root_admin/createDiskOffering.html
            Reporter: Mike Tutkowski
             Fix For: 4.0.0, pre-4.0.0


On the example page above, the disksize field lists that that it is in GB.  For some people GB means 10 raised to the 9th power (1,000,000,000) bytes while for others it means 2 raised to the 30th power (1,073,741,824) bytes.

Check out Wiki here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte.

I recommend we clarify documents to indicate we are talking about a GB being equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes (which is often known as a GiB).

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