SHA1SUM Inconsistent results
Michal Jaegermann
michal at harddata.com
Wed Nov 26 19:00:24 UTC 2008
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:33:08PM -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>
> 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.
That sounds like indeed done but maybe something was lying?
> Comparing the file size with a wget
> version of the file from a different mirror shows identical number of
> bytes.
Here is the crucial point. You were not comparing sizes (in blocks)
but lengths (in bytes). A file from bittorent will have a correct
length right away even when it is really nearly empty.
Michal
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