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msbarnett on July 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: ~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X...

It's taking a CRC32 of the contents of the image and comparing it to the expected value stored in the image.

I've very occasionally run across corrupted disk images, which is what this catches.

binarycrusader on July 29, 2012 [–]

Considering I've frequently encountered this with botched downloads of disk images from the Apple servers, this seems like something that shouldn't be disabled.

And no, it isn't my system, it's Apple's servers; only have the problem with downloads from them.

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