Hey people

Just thought I'd forward this on to the dev list just in case it's
something that should be looked at. The remark was made by Sandworm who
is currently working on Frost about why there are duplicate files with
the new FEC version.

----- Sandworm ----- 2003.1.12 - 18:47:34 -----
I've checked the issue with the keys and the explanation may be simple.
What I found is that both files are identical and the splitfile metadata
has a different key for the last block of the file. This may reasonably
be caused by a change of the data beyond EOF sent for generation of the
key and put into the chunk file in one of the versions since first
upload if the file.

However I still wonder whether we should rely on the sequence of lines
in the metadata returned by freenet. A change of the sort order over the
versions would result in different keys for the files - not a good idea.
We depend on the FEC implementation anyhow, but we probably should not
depend on the sort order. I have prepared a version where the splitfile
entries are sorted and will test it.

What do you guys suggest?
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