Re: [Mldonkey-users] md4 computing (was: Re: eMule Mod to emulate mldonkey)

[Goswin Brederlow]

Michael Panteleit <address@hidden> writes:

> MLdonkey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Another interesting idea would be to separate the process which
> > computes md4 of chunks from mldonkey. This way, someone could
> > restart its mldonkey without restarting the other process, so that
> > the md4s would be computed less often.
> 
> I asked this once or twice before. Why is it necessary to compute the
> md4s on each startup? Is it just for verifying?

Because nobody bothers to save them I think.

But its good to verify the md4 before sharing.

MfG
        Goswin