squeeze, setup-storage and LVM

[Michael Tautschnig]

> > It's truely easy to make setup-storage eat this extra 'i', but what is
> > the correct solution? It seems that LVM switched over to IEC-proposed
> > Gi prefixes to mean 1024*1024*1024 bytes; should we then also change
> > the semantics of disk_config files where [...]
> 
> Start to deprecate "G" and introduce "GB" and "GiB"?
> 
> IMHO that would be the cleanest approach.
> 

Probably true, yes. Done in 3.3.3+experimental6 (users will be given a warning).

> tschüß
> thomas
> 
> P.S.: For the time being "G"'s behaviour would be dependent on the
> underlying LVM version.
> 

Ouch. We'll have to wait another two Debian release cycles or so until we really
do that change.

Thanks for the very valuable comments!!

Best,
Michael


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