durerca Posted November 23, 2005 Report Posted November 23, 2005 I've been looking in the forums and couldn't find an answer. Could anyone help explain what the new bt.compact_allocation feature does? Thank you.
ColdArmor Posted November 23, 2005 Report Posted November 23, 2005 and if you're just too lazy:bt.compact_allocation : This allows µTorrent to create files incrementally, instead of allocating the entire file once a piece is written. This is not the same option as NTFS sparse files; it works on all systems. It will also NOT work with pre-allocate, even when doing selective downloading.
durerca Posted November 23, 2005 Author Report Posted November 23, 2005 I did a forum search for bt.compact_allocation and didn't find anything. I didn't think to check the FAQ tho. Nice to see it's updated so quickly .
Klaus_1250 Posted November 24, 2005 Report Posted November 24, 2005 Why would you ever want to turn this on? Doesn't this fragment your drive and causes extra work for your HD?
Firon Posted November 24, 2005 Report Posted November 24, 2005 Compact mode causes some fragmentation but it's not that bad, at least when compared to sparse files. I doubt it'd cause MORE work for your HD though.You'd wanna turn it on when you have limited space while getting a big torrent (maybe you got a slow connection) and don't want all the space taken up whenever the file is created. There's probably various other reasons.
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