md5sum doesn't match with BitTorrent

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:30, Ben Steeves wrote:
> Re. the person who was asking if checking MD5s is redundant -- you
> should always check the MD5s before burning, at least to make sure the
> ISO is OK.  Afterwards, media check should be sufficient.

Checking MD5's of a completed torrent d/l is redundant, because
BitTorrent checks MD5 on each chunk it gets as it completes it.
Therefore the whole, if finished, will be fine automatically unless your
disk has a media problem unrelated to the d/l. Read the protocol for
more info.

-- 
Paul W. Frields, RHCE