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caf on Aug 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2

As long as they also have the same piece size.

infogulch on Aug 8, 2017 [–]

Not necessarily. If you have a smart client it should be able to combine them at the file-level since individual files are hashed as a whole now, regardless of the block size within it.

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