Le Mercredi 15 Octobre 2003 21:51, Jan Ciger a �crit : > | Then I understand that BitTorrent lefts blanks and updates them later. > | I have to wait 32 hours... (42% done) > > Bittorrent works that way, that it creates the file in full size from > start and fills in the blanks. If you are running md5sum on the > non-finished files, you will get bogus values. > > The size of the file does not change while downloading, only time stamp. > You have to follow the stats given by torrent client to find out when it > is finished. The size will be always correct, even though only 1% was > downloaded.
That's not fully true, BitTorrent seems allocates size by chunks -rw-rw-r-- 1 pierre pierre 683642880 oct 15 22:19 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 pierre pierre 265842688 oct 15 22:19 MandrakeLinux-9.2-18-Download-2.i586.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 pierre pierre 0 oct 14 17:07 MandrakeLinux-9.2-19-Download-3.i586.iso -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-pr�sident de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/
