Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a bit torrent client that runs under linux and has an > unusual option. > > If I am downloading a torrent that contains several parts, let's say > a linux CD install set, I want the client to finish downloading each > entire part first, before starting the next. > > For example, the torrent I am downloading contains 4 cd images, 1.iso, 2.iso, > 3.iso and 4.iso. I would like it to finish 1.iso before it starts downloading > 2.iso, finish 2.iso before starting 3.iso and finish 3.iso before it starts > downloading 4.iso. > > The current clients I have tried do not do this. Once they have started a > piece > as a connection frees, they start the next piece. Often 1.iso is not finished > until all 4 files are downloaded and the torrent client goes into seeding > mode. > bittornado (at least the wx GUI interface) has the ability to assign priorities to files. It's Python so it should be easy to hack to to automatically assign prioties according to already downloaded portion - which depending on strictness could implement behaviours ranging from the default to your one-at-a-time (which I think is more strict than you really want).
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