[DOCS-6738] Comment on: "manual/core/sharding-introduction.txt" Created: 07/Dec/15  Updated: 27/Jul/16  Resolved: 14/Dec/15

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
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Type: Bug Priority: Trivial - P5
Reporter: Daniel U. Thibault [X] Assignee: Kyle Suarez
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 Description   

"if a database has a 1 terabyte data set, and there are 4 shards, then each shard might hold only 256GB of data"

Two problems: The first is a minor matter of typography. Measurements should be expressed with a space between the number and the unit (with a exceptions such as the degree symbol), thus "256 GB".

The other is more serious. Clearly, you are using GB in its powers-of-two sense, which is unfortunate. It would be preferable to use the ISO/IEC IEC 80000-13:2008 prefixes, like this:

"if a database has a 1 tebibyte data set, and there are 4 shards, then each shard might hold only 256 GiB of data"



 Comments   
Comment by Emily Hall [ 27/Jul/16 ]

Closed for housekeeping on 7/27/2016 by Emily Hall.
If you require additional support, please open a new ticket for prioritization.
Thanks,
Emily

Comment by Kyle Suarez [ 14/Dec/15 ]

Fixed in the commit below:

Author:

{u'username': u'ksuarz', u'name': u'Kyle Suarez', u'email': u'kyle.suarez@mongodb.com'}

Message: DOCS-6736 fix unit spacing

Ensures that a space is placed between a number and a unit; for example,
"64 GB".

In the GridFS documentation, "k" has been converted to "KB" when discussing
chunk size.

A hyphen is used for "32-bit" and "64-bit."

Signed-off-by: kay <kay.kim@10gen.com>
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/5edb84f5c2655a2d721af1de0433bf1a42ed95d9

Comment by Kyle Suarez [ 11/Dec/15 ]

Hello DUThibault,

Thanks for your report. You raise a good point concerning binary prefixes, so I have opened DOCS-6800, which addresses a complete overhaul of the use of prefixes for data measurements throughout the documentation.

In the interest of consistency with the rest of the documentation, I won't be fixing the prefixes in this ticket and will defer that work to DOCS-6800.

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