Le quintidi 25 pluviôse, an CCXIV, Phillip Susi a écrit : > Ahh, I see. I've never seen anyone use it in conjunction with an si > prefix. I also think that they use it in RFCs because at the time they > started writing them, bytes were not always 8 bits on all machines. > Today it is a pretty safe assumption that a byte is 8 bits, so most > people use the two terms interchangeably ;) They continue using more octet than bytes even in recent RFCs. I have read I do not remember where that the goal was to avoid byte/bit confusion. I am sorry, I did not intend to start an off-topic subthread. I think I should stick with kB/MB/GB unless I already used the full word earlier. > I had that same thought a few weeks ago so I gave it a try. I formatted > a partition with UDF, put some files on it, then booted windows to see > if it would take it. It didn't :( So bad... Perhaps it was asking too much... > Hrm... interesting, I wonder how complete it is and what it's license > is? The man page (<URL: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/6mbb1kq22?a=view > for Solaris 10, I believe OpenSolaris is based on it) tells briefly that the checked inconsistencies are (I quote): - Blocks claimed by more than one file or the free list - Blocks claimed by a file or the free list outside the range of the file system - Incorrect link counts in file entries - Incorrect directory sizes - Bad file entry format - Blocks not accounted for anywhere - Directory checks, file pointing to unallocated file entry and absence of a parent directory entry - Descriptor checks, more blocks for files than there are in the file system - Bad free block list format - Total free block count incorrect I do not know UDF at all, so I can not tell if this is enough or not. As for the licence, it is the one of OpenSolaris <URL: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing/opensolaris_license/ >, which is free enough for the FSF to make efforts to have GPL3 compatible with it. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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