a torrent of warts

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:49:30PM +0100, Andy wrote:
> Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> >BitTorrent uses SHA1 internally to make sure that you downloaded the
> >right file so arguably the only thing you need is the hash of
> >the .torrent file. BitTorrent is a fantastically safe download mechanism
> >and it saves everyone bandwidth. 
> 
> True - but I personally am always glad of an MD5SUM of the iso  - it's 
> useful for checking the image later on if I think it's been corrupted 
> (e.g. owing to a hard disk that's bveginning to fail or something - I've 
> had it happen). It's possible to include multiple files in the same 
> torrent, so including an MD5SUM file for the ISO is not a bad idea - and 
>  it's not as if it's going to make much difference to the size of the 
> download!

There's an MD5SUMS file alongside all of the CD images we ship. It's
tiny, so it's not really worth torrenting.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]