Comment 5 for bug 538165

It is flabbergasting that the marketing spin (started in late 80s, I believe) to make hard drives look bigger by redefining the kilobyte as 1000 bytes has now hit Ubuntu as well. Every filesystem I have ever worked with did stick to the old definition of kb (1024 bytes) and MB (1024*1024 MB) and all applications and all users have come to rely on it.

Introducing change for change's sake is helping nobody - and just marking this as "Invalid" is downright arrogant in my book. If you need to introduce insanity in Lucid's filesystem, at least make it configurable for those of us who do not want to loose consistency with the rest of the world.