SHA1SUM Inconsistent results

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:07:52AM -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Any reason why sha1sum returns a different result each time it is run 
> against my downloaded release DVD iso of i386 FC10?  None match the 
> downloaded SHA1SUM list.  Downloaded the DVD via bittorrent.

Are you sure that you were not still downloading?  Bittorent makes
right away a _sparse_ file of a final length but its size is a
different story.  In other words numbers you will see from
'ls -ls' or 'ls -lsh' will get consistent only when you finished
that download. With other download methods, say wget, a length will
grow over time.

   Michal