On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 04:06 +0530, Mani A wrote: > "Fedora Installation Guide" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > #4: Beginning the Installation - Chapter 4 update > > ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- > > Reporter: quaid | Owner: soulspecter > > Type: task | Status: new > > Priority: major | Milestone: RC-ready > > Component: Content | Version: 10.0.0 > > Resolution: | Keywords: > > ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- > > Comment (by soulspecter): > > In section 4.3 we should probably make note that: > > > > "BitTorrent Automatically Verifies File Integrity > > If you use BitTorrent, any files you download are automatically validated. > > If your file completes downloading you do not need to check it. Once you > > Many BitTorrent clients (including Ktorrent) do not perform automatic > verification. They must be asked to check data integrity. Are you certain about that? This is part of the BitTorrent protocol itself AIUI, not the application level. The only want for *any* BitTorrent client to know it got a correct, complete chunk is to check the sha1sum for that chunk. Which means that, by definition, if you have completed all chunks, your file has been automatically validated. I think this text is correct as written. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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