[Fedora Installation Guide] #4: Beginning the Installation - Chapter 4 update

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 04:06 +0530, Mani A wrote:
> "Fedora Installation Guide" <trac at fedorahosted.org> wrote:
> > #4: Beginning the Installation - Chapter 4 update
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> >  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.

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