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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Domain Save Image Format proposal (draft C)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:52:38 +0000
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On 27/02/14 16:21, Ian Jackson wrote:
> David Vrabel writes ("Domain Save Image Format proposal (draft C)"):
> 
>> checksum     CRC-32C checksum of the record head, body (including any
>>              trailing padding) and the footer (except for the checksum
>>              field itself), or 0x00000000 if the checksum field is
>>              invalid.
> 
> I still question whether it is really sensible to have a set of
> per-record checksums which do not cover all of the file (eg, excluding
> the image header, and the file structure).

I'm going to drop the checksum field.  There doesn't seem to be much
interest in it.

David