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

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 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
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>>> 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.

That's correct. Any bittorrent client has to do this automatically. It 
is a inherent property of the protocol.

Rahul