On Mon, 25 May 2009, manish kumar wrote: > does it issue get solved after the second data integrity check ? > > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all: > > > > a 7GB archive was downloaded using KTorrent. > > > > i'm given to understand that hashes are calculated for the > > downloaded blocks. > > > > i did the following experiment: > > delected about 22 files of varying sizes but under different > > branches in the archive. Thus effectively the archive is > > incomplete and subsequent connection to a P2P network must > > trigger downloads for the missing pieces. > > > > Okay, so the observation is that the KTorrent client is > > downloading the blocks for the missing files in the archive. > > > > However, the disk i/o LED starts blinking after approx 2 min. > > and that time the dialog shows up "corrupt block detected in the > > archive, running data integrity check". > > > > People knowledgeable with P2P can they share, why a corrupt > > block notification is shown, when the data integrity scan is > > already done once by the client ? > >
Hi Manish: The Torrent client keeps doing the data integrity check again and again. thanks Saifi.
