Comment 12 for bug 538165

Apache's mod_autoindex deals with the directory listing, and I don't
think we can control its units display.

Erick is right to point out that this is a flaw in the units policy,
though. When looking at the units policy in the Technical Board, we
took account of the units in which various things are traditionally
labelled; that's why disks are specified as decimal (since, like it or
not - and I don't - that's how the things are labelled) and RAM as
binary. There are always going to be different uses for file sizes, but
their units seemed to follow most naturally from disks.

In this case, though, CDs have always, unlike hard disks, been labelled
in binary megabytes, and my opinion is that it would be against the
spirit of the new units policy (even if not its letter) to quote CD
image sizes in decimal megabytes. This is my personal opinion, and I'm
not speaking for the rest of the Technical Board here, but I believe I
could make a good case for an exception. We should not blindly rush to
apply a (very!) new policy to an edge case that wasn't considered when
the policy was written.

Perhaps the best approach is to note the discrepancy in a footnote on
the web pages. Yes, it's a shame that we have to talk about this
gobbledegook at all, but with CDs and hard disks being labelled in
different units, the only thing that we can possibly do is move the
confusion around. As Chris observes, there was confusion before the new
units policy, just in a different place.