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If you mean GiB, say GiB, if you mean GB say GB. Tarsnap does, based on that over ten year old standard (IEEE 1541-2002) correct thing.

Blaming Tarsnap or people creating hard drives or other media is like when people use some old Frontpage and blame browsers that it's not supported, while IE (used by the majority!) does.

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