Comment 17 for bug 538165

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 538165] Re: Lucid reads file size wrong

Endolith: If you're going to argue that memory is naturally in powers of
two, then so are hard drives since they have 512-byte sectors. In fact,
the industry is switching over to 4KiB physical sectors, and I hear that
some modern disks even like partitions to be aligned on MiB boundaries.
I'm sure that will cause some confusion for those counting in decimal
and looking closely at their partitions, but there's not much to be done
about it.

Erick: I don't see a tearing urgency to change the cdimage site for beta
1. If there's a bit of confusion that's different from the confusion
that was there before, so be it.