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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