Glenn Lagasse wrote: > * Eric J. Ray (Eric.Ray at Sun.COM) wrote: >> On Mar 12, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Glenn Lagasse wrote: >>>> What's the use case around generating several kinds of images, but >>>> only requiring checksums for some of them, or generating different >>>> checksums for different kinds of images? Common? >>> I don't know that there is enough data to determine what's common. If >>> we use the OpenSolaris releases as a guide, I'm pretty sure that we >>> want >>> to generate the same checksums for all the images we create. And so >>> requiring checksums for some of them or different checksums for >>> different kinds of images is probably not common (at least in the >>> OpenSolaris release case). >> So, what does that do for your design? > > It makes it simpler. We create a new 'toggle' in the DC manifest to > enable checksumming of images (all images) and then the finalizer > scripts that generate images compute image hashes using the list of > hash types that I deemed appropriate/most useful (md5, sha1, sha256). >
Will you be placing the hashes into a single file, a file per hash type, or what? Dave
