What steps will reproduce the problem? Put some large files into a direct mode repository (so fsck time is noticeable). git annex add them, commit, run git annex fsck. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? 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. What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? git-annex version: 4.20130405, Linux Please provide any additional information below. > I've fixed it, fsck is indeed checksumming direct mode files now, as long > as they're not known to be modified. [[done]] --[[Joey]]