pre-allocation of disk space

[stretch87]

when disabling/enabling the "pre-allocate disk space" feature in utorrent 1.4, is a restart required for the changes to take place? even though there is no popup saying a restart is required i think it does.

[Firon]

No. However, the change only applies to newly added torrents. Pre-allocated torrents stay pre-allocated. The same applies for sparse files.

[pictor]

Instead for me, it doesn't work.

I have the option unchecked, but it keep (as with the older versions) to pre-allocate alla the needed space.

Is it a bug?

Or I'm doing something wrong?

[cjard]

if UT downloads the first and last pieces of a file, it needs to allocate for the whole file. if it does this with every file in the torrent, it needs to allocate for the whole torrent.. gotta suck it up, im afraid!

[Nefarious]

actually no, utorrent does allocate the whole space for a file when writing any part not just the first and/or last, what it doesnt do when pre-allocate is checked is allocate all the files, it will just make the space for the file it has pieces for

[rafi]

Is that so ? So, I wounder if this can change ? Is it possible to "instruct" uT to download the pieces "in order" start to end. For example - first 10% of the file first then the next 10% etc. This might be good to reduce pre-allocation size, as well as be able to pre-view the file better!

[Animorc]

rafi: No. This was discussed to death some months ago and it will completely spoil the original purpose of the Bittorrent protocol, which is to reduce server load and bandwidth for everyone.

[1c3d0g]

Agreed. No, that's the complete opposite of what BitTorrent tries to achieve. You really don't want to do that sequentially. :/

[Firon]

http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#How_do_I_make_.C2.B5Torrent_allocate_all_the_files_when_I_start_the_torrent.3F