Comment by sowbug

That might be the answer -- something like BitTorrent that updates only the parts that need updating.

But I do think I'm identifying an unmet need. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-BF16.gguf, for example: what's its sha256sum? I don't think the HF UI will tell you. I can only download the shards, verify each shard's sha256sum (which the HF UI does provide), llama-gguf-split --merge them, and then sha256sum the merged file myself. But I can't independently confirm that final sha256sum from any other source I trust.