Nanashi Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 How do I make the torrent start out with a file size of zero instead of being the size it will be once finished?
Falcon4 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 diskio.sparse_files = trueNTFS only, though, far as I know. That'll create a "bogus" file then write data to it, instead of writing zeros everywhere first.As far as giving the file a byte value of zero, that's pretty much impossible because when a piece is written to the end of the file, there needs to be an "end of the file" to write to. It can't just write 4mb to the end of a 1gb file without having the other 1,020 MB behind it to make it "the end".I hope this helps... 'cuz I don't know how else I'd be able to
Firon Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 Not with sparse files. It writes the files out of order (yes, this is possible) to minimize the size. However, it LOOKS like it's written the full file, but when you view the properties of the file, you can see the Size on disk (the allocated amount) is much much smaller.Be warned this increases fragmentation.Do NOT use compact allocation.
Falcon4 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 That's pretty much what I thought I said... (could someone fix the wink smiley? I'm just using it because I know (?) it'll be fixed... lol)Out of curiosity, what's "compact allocation"?
Nanashi Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Posted February 6, 2006 Thanks, that's all I needed to know The big reason is I start all my torrents at once, many times more than my hard drive can hold, and then many just sit there never finding seeds or peers and just taking up a lot of space. I have more than enough hard drive space if the dead torrents don't take up tons of space before anything has downloaded.I think BitLord does exactly that, and Azureus may just not have the option. I don't know how BitLord does it, but perhaps that would be a nice feature for Azureus to add in! They start out with 0kb, and as it downloads it goes up byte by byte. Anyway, your post is most helpful, and if anyone does know of a way please tell.
Falcon4 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 µTorrent won't write a file out until a piece of it has been received, I think... I've noticed this behavior when I accidentally put a torrent in the wrong place or something, and I don't have to go back and delete a folder because it hasn't been created yet.Just s'ya know.
Nanashi Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Posted February 6, 2006 µTorrent won't write a file out until a piece of it has been received, I think... I've noticed this behavior when I accidentally put a torrent in the wrong place or something, and I don't have to go back and delete a folder because it hasn't been created yet.Just s'ya know. I know that, but sometimes it will download 10kb out of 1.6gb for example, which can be a real pain ;-)
Firon Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 Sure it does, I just didn't use it in my post. You may need to refresh
Falcon4 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 Ah. I did "view image" and it still came up with the same weird error......Then I hit refresh. Slap me. >.<(Then delete these last few posts if you want ) <-- lol
splintax Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 I had problems with too, but it seems to be fixed now.
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