Re: [Mldonkey-users] Hashing on startup

[JoLorant]

Am Freitag, 29. November 2002 19:08 schrieb Simon Eilting:

>> What's that for a question. Of course it hashes the complete temp/ at
>> startup, I HOPE it does. It wouldn't be able to continue downloads
>> otherwise.
>
> Why would it hash the temp/ directory? If it does, there is something
> really wrong. Instead, mldonkey should save the md4 of the downloaded
> files in a separate file. Correct me if I'm wrong, but would hashing
> partially donwloaded files not result in a completely wrong hash?

Ah okay, I understand you now.

I don't know how it does it in detail, but I believe hashing the incomplete 
files is neccessary to share the already downloaded parts.


JoLo