Re: md5sum doesn't match with BitTorrent
"Paul W. Frields" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:30, Ben Steeves wrote: > Re. the person who was asking if checking MD5s is redundant -- you > should always check the MD5s before burning, at least to make sure the > ISO is OK. Afterwards, media check should be sufficient. Checking MD5's of a completed torrent d/l is redundant, because BitTorrent checks MD5 on each chunk it gets as it completes it. Therefore the whole, if finished, will be fine automatically unless your disk has a media problem unrelated to the d/l. Read the protocol for more info. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE -- fedora-test-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list