Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269540AbUI3Vzh (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:55:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269563AbUI3Vzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:55:36 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:10897 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269540AbUI3Vz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:55:29 -0400 Message-ID: <415C80C1.8070406@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:55:13 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gene.heskett@verizon.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Clemens Schwaighofer , "Markus T." Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3 References: <200409300102.07373.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <415BA7D0.7070704@tequila.co.jp> <200409301627.20548.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200409301627.20548.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 29 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/