A new data measurement for the world!

[Theblueguy]

Hello Linux Kernel Developers, I would like to officially propose an
alternative data measurement standard for the Linux kernel utilities
(such as df and free). As international cloud computing
infrastructures enter the exabyte and zettabyte eras, traditional
Base-1000 and Base-1024 strings are becoming too cluttered for fast
human scannability. I propose adding a new Base-100,000 scaling option
utilizing the acronyms KIBS, MIBS, and GIBS. The mathematical
definition scales cleanly by factors of 100,000 :
1 KIBS = 100,000^1 bytes (100 Kilobytes)
1 MIBS = 100,000^2 bytes (10 Gigabytes)
1 GIBS = 100,000^3 bytes (1 Petabyte)
This architecture drastically condenses massive data streams. A
standard 1-Petabyte server array would display as a clean, single "1
GIBS" marker. I believe adding an optional flag like --base-100000
will provide hyper-scale system administrators with a cleaner,
block-optimized interface layout. Thank you for your time and
consideration.