This client allows u to "ban" certain content, blocking it from being downloaded. That way you can download just the files you want and it works. Bittorrent OR bittornado should have a similar option. Haven't checked it out though, will do when I get around my linux box.
Alex
On 9/21/05, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:36:07PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> it's not a bug, it's a feature. the torrent does not really care where
> one file begins and another ends, for the torent the entire "package" is
> one large tar. to download sequencially will mean that the algorithm
> needs to change and you lose all the benefints of opportunistic
> downloads.
I know that's the standard algorythm, but somewhere in the code it has
to decide when to start a new file. I just want to make it decide differently.
> if everyone downloads from start to end and the only seed
> dies for some reason, you end up with 20 people holding only the first
> half. if they all pick random blocks while the seed is up, then if it
> goes away, they still all have bits to share until the seed comes back.
That's a neat idea, but it really does not act that way. For example, I
am currently downloading a block of files, 21 to be exact and so far
they have taken a day each. If you did an "ls -s" of the directory, you
would see each file start at 0 and as one reached it's full size, the
next one starts to grow.
I assume that once the entire file has been allocated, then it is downloaded
that way but until then, it's files with their full size and files of zero
length with one file in between But until all of the files are done, none
of them are done.
Since it's taking so long, I'd rather get each file one at a time. Then if
the seeds die or the tracker goes away on the 20th day, I have something
useable instead of 20 files of junk.
This probably would make bittorrent less robust, but it would make it
a lot more "loveable" to those who want it.
Obviously on the files that I can get at 100+ bytes per second I don't care.
Geoff.
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