ISO download very failed

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Aldo Foot wrote:
>>> It probably was just an incomplete download.
>> Could be, he never mentioned the size of the ISO file.
>>
> Would that make a difference with a torrent download? I thought the
> file was full size, but may have holes in it until the torrent
> finishes. Doesn't the file get filled with the chunks available at
> the time, and not in order from beginning to end?

When I've looked at files that were downloading, I've noticed that it 
only allocates space for the furtherest chunk that its has downloaded.
Yes, undownloaded chunks are holes, but the file isn't full size unless 
the last chuck has been downloaded.  My experience is that I see file 
sizes grow during the download so I suspect the last chunk is one of the 
last chunks to be requested.  It might not *have* to be, but my 
experience says that it is.

> Mikkel
> 


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