[OpenIndiana-discuss] Spare bandwidth for mirroring
Gary
gdriggs at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 20:03:07 UTC 2010
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Jesus Cea wrote:
> You don't neet a MD5 check. The original "torrent" file comes from
> OpenIndiana, and it is "safe". You are a seed, like any other BT client.
The reason you don't need one is because torrent clients perform their
own checksum with a Mainline distributed hash table;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Creating_and_publishing_torrents
-Gary
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