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Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by rincebrain » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

godzillabrennus wrote: post #5

Is this basically all the benefits of health checks in ZFS through distributed computing?

Not exactly; the checksums in BitTorrent are fairly strong, but you could get that benefit with just a FUSE layer that knew how to associate checksum metadata with files.

I also am not entirely sure what benefit this brings other than "amusing proof of concept", currently, so take my above note with a grain of salt.

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by ArnoldP » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

I wonder if this prioritizes chunks in order? Or does one have to wait for an entire mp4 to be downloaded before knowing it will play all the way through?

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by jug5 » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

What's the point of this?

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by runn1ng » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

Is this read-only filesystem? It seems like it, right?

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by jug5 » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:33 PM UTC

runn1ng wrote: post #14

Is this read-only filesystem? It seems like it, right?

"With BTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree."

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by mwfj » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:38 PM UTC

Most use cases or apps don't deal well with read latencies in the thousands of seconds...

From quickly reading the source code; it doesn't do any particularly clever optimizations. I'd file this in the "IP over pigeons" category.

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by enginn » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:38 PM UTC

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by hackking » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:47 PM UTC

geocar wrote: post #8

zaporozhets wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, trying it now - but I'd be surprised if it builds update: nope. http://pastebin.com/Zf8fVh1D

There's also: https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-mount which claims to have been used with OSXFuse...

ok let me try

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by xnyhps » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:51 PM UTC

geocar wrote: post #8

zaporozhets wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, trying it now - but I'd be surprised if it builds update: nope. http://pastebin.com/Zf8fVh1D

There's also: https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-mount which claims to have been used with OSXFuse...

I've use that on OS X, worked quite well. Ultimately I don't see much use for it though, maybe if you want to get information about the headers of files before you download them completely or something like that.

Re: BitTorrent file system

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Post by kilovoltaire » Sat, Jan 02, 2016, 4:53 PM UTC

runn1ng wrote: post #14

Is this read-only filesystem? It seems like it, right?

Yes, the readme says that it is read-only.