I wonder how torrent files deal with checksums on chunks.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com>wrote:

> It is what I wanted to do but Om has a good argument in disfavor:
>
> "2.  If you get one chunk per mirror and if one of the mirrors has a
> corrupted artifact, then it will be almost impossible to figure out and
> track where the MD5 checksum."
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Mark Kessler [mailto:kesslerconsult...@gmail.com]
> Envoyé : jeudi 5 septembre 2013 01:27
> À : Dev@Flex
> Objet : Re: [Intaller] Speed up download
>
> Is there anything that says we can't download bits from separate mirrors?
> Select each mirror in the Apache way, but I bet the Apache way doesn't say
> it can't have multiple different mirrors.  Be a bit more like a torrent
> then
> :P
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 9/4/13 2:54 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote:
> >
> > >We can't.  We have to rely on the Apache system to determine the
> > >download mirror.  We are locked into that method.
> > I know we have to use mirrors, but are you sure we can't use a
> > different algorithm?
> >
> > -Alex
> >
> >
>

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