Show filesizes for downloads on website

[tom.ov...@gmail.com]

It would be nice if the download page at https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/ showed the size in bytes alongside the filename. Not only would it be nice to know how big the file before downloading it, I also see this as a minimal security feature as a *first-step* in verifying the integrity of the file. Note I'm not suggesting in any way that this is a replacement for checking the digital signatures.

[Andrew David Wong]

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Thanks for the suggestion! Tracking it here:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2164

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[Zrubi]

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File size is depends on the actual filesystem. So it would be a really
bad choice to check file integrity.

It would only add info about the approximately amount of bytes you
have to download.


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Zrubi
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[tom.ov...@gmail.com]

On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 3:01:11 AM UTC-4, Laszlo Zrubecz wrote:

File size is depends on the actual filesystem. So it would be a really
bad choice to check file integrity.

It would only add info about the approximately amount of bytes you
have to download.

No, that's not the way it works. A binary file of n bytes is a binary file of n bytes. It may take more than n bytes to store it on disk due to block sizes, but I don't know of any system where it won't show the size in n bytes.

[Laszlo Zrubecz]

Sure You are right.
I just messed up things in my mind :o I may need some defrag


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Laszlo Zrubecz