SHA1SUM Inconsistent results

Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734 at cox.net
Wed Nov 26 17:33:08 UTC 2008


Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:07:52AM -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>> Any reason why sha1sum returns a different result each time it is run 
>> against my downloaded release DVD iso of i386 FC10?  None match the 
>> downloaded SHA1SUM list.  Downloaded the DVD via bittorrent.
> 
> Are you sure that you were not still downloading?  Bittorent makes
> right away a _sparse_ file of a final length but its size is a
> different story.  In other words numbers you will see from
> 'ls -ls' or 'ls -lsh' will get consistent only when you finished
> that download. With other download methods, say wget, a length will
> grow over time.
> 
>    Michal
> 

To the best of my knowledge, it was done.  Ktorrent said it was done, 
status said it was seeding and upload size was way above the mirror 
listed size.  I also "quit" the notification icon.  There was no 
activity on the cable modem either.  Comparing the file size with a wget 
version of the file from a different mirror shows identical number of 
bytes.  I can't now do a diff since I deleted the bittorrent version.

Thanks for the reply...just have to put this in my memory banks and see 
what happens nex time.

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Regards,

Old Fart




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