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+What steps will reproduce the problem?
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+Put some large files into a direct mode repository (so fsck time is noticeable).  git annex add them, commit, run git annex fsck.
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+What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
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+Expected: files are checksummed, which should take considerable amount of time for each file.  For reference, in indirect mode, fsck takes a while for files of ~1GB size.
+Actually: in direct mode, git annex fsck goes through all of the files in an instant and prints OK for each. I believe the file content is not verified.
+Multiple runs of git annex fsck do the same thing.
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+What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
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+git-annex version: 4.20130405, Linux
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+Please provide any additional information below.
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