Wednesday, December 24th, 2014 by arvid
One of the main bottlenecks when downloading and seeding content over bittorrent is accessing the disk. This post explores the option to bypass traditional filesystems and use a block device as storage for torrents, in order to improve download performance. bittorrent protocol BitTorrent downloads conceptually divide up content into pieces, which are downloaded in rarest-first order. . . .
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Monday, December 1st, 2014 by arvid
A .torrent file is very flexible in what it allows a path or filename to contain. Each directory name in a path is a length-prefixed utf-8 string. It can be an empty string, and it can have any character imaginable in it. The way a .torrent file represents filenames and paths is also agnostic to . . .
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