There seem to be some work done on this here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9209
3rd party tool: https://github.com/rdsr/hdfs-checksum Regards, Shahab On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:39 PM, xeonmailinglist <xeonmailingl...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to use SHA-256, or MD5 as a checksum in a file in HDFS? > > Thanks, >