From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>,
"Markus T." <markus@trippelsdorf.net>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:55:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415C80C1.8070406@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409301627.20548.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Gene Heskett wrote:
> bz2 has resulted in corrupted unpacks here on more than one occasion,
> and it has done it without any outwardly visible error when the
> md5sum was good. I've had it skip a whole subdir tree in a kernel
> unpack on at least 4 occasions, and a missing file someplace on
> several more occasions. I don't have any such troubles when dl'ing
> and using the .gz version of things.
>
> There has been at least one occasion where the .bz2 dl had a bad
> md5sum, again without any visible error as it was downloading, nuke
> it and go back and get the same file again and it was good. Again
> I've had no such troubles when using the .gz versions, so after a a
> while, I got into the habit of just gettng the .gz version and I've
> never had an instance of a bad md5sum that wasn't accompanied by site
> access problems.
There's definitely something else going on. I don't see how you can
blame bz2 for downloading problems. If this were true we would see a
_lot_ more problem reports than just one in >5 years.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-30 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-30 3:37 Linux 2.6.9-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2004-09-30 4:53 ` Markus T.
2004-09-30 4:59 ` Tom Duffy
2004-09-30 5:02 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30 6:29 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-09-30 7:30 ` James Bruce
2004-09-30 7:33 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-09-30 15:53 ` Ingo Saitz
2004-09-30 20:27 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-01 0:42 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-01 3:30 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-01 3:34 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-01 4:01 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-01 4:05 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-10-01 4:06 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-01 3:17 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-01 5:44 ` Christian Hesse
2004-09-30 18:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-30 20:32 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30 5:03 ` Tom Duffy
2004-09-30 5:14 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-09-30 5:33 ` Tom Duffy
2004-09-30 5:20 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30 5:24 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-09-30 20:41 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-30 14:13 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-09-30 19:03 ` Linux 2.6.9-rc3 Bill Davidsen
2004-10-01 13:49 ` [PATCH] tty fall-out (was: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3) Geert Uytterhoeven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-30 15:38 Linux 2.6.9-rc3 Tim Krieglstein
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[not found] ` <2Kh8e-5H2-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2KjMz-6E6-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2Kmr3-9n-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-10-01 12:36 ` Pascal Schmidt
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