Re: [core-dev] VerifyingFile returns false positivies when checking for file corruptions

Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2005 23:46 schrieb Eugene Romanenko:
> I seen this today. I downloading 600 Mb file, it was at 80%, after
> restart limewire it says about many megabytes lost in corruption, and
> percent was dropped to 30%. I have dialup connection and such fault was
> unacceptable... I played with IncompleteFileManager.java source and add
> intervals (nearly all file) to partialBlocks, restart lime, file was
> re-checked, and percent was return to 75%, which was acceptable enough...
>
> May be some malicious servent sent broken hash-tree?

Possibly, but I find that unlikely, - especially since I have seen this happen 
with hashtrees that would later work perfectly well (although not recently 
ever since the changes to the VerifyingFile).

> May be possible add menu item something like "recheck downloaded data"
> to verify chuncks for whole downloaded size?

That would indeed be very handy! However, we need something that works without 
user intervention.

> Gregorio Roper wrote:
> > The problem is seemingly unrelated to the download speed, I limited the
> > download speed to 20KB/s and the chunk that was just downloaded still
> > kept failing to verify...

-- 
mfg
gregorio roper
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