Bug 511520

Summary:	files.kde.org says it uses metric units, but it actually uses IEC units
Product:	[Websites] www.kde.org	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kde-www mailing-list <kde-www>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Nate Graham 2025-11-02 15:14:46 UTC

See https://files.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux_202511021417.raw.mirrorlist, which says:

> The file /kde-linux/kde-linux_202511021417.raw has a size of 5.7 GB (6108221440 bytes)

However this is inaccurate. "GB" is a "gigabyte", which is exactly 1 billion bytes — a decimal metric unit. 6108221440 bytes is approximately 6.1 gigabytes (GB), not 5.7. 

6108221440 bytes is 5.7 of something, though. That something is a Gibibyte, with the abbreviation GiB. This is a binary IEC unit.

My preference would be to continue using Gigabytes/GB (as this is by far the more common unit of measurement), and make the number accurate.

Comment 1 Ben Cooksley 2025-11-03 10:45:56 UTC

This is a bug in Mirrorbits itself, which is not handling this properly.
Can you please file this upstream at https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits/?