whileloop Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 I suggest store partfiles with torrents instead of downloaded files. I know the partfiles are for part of boundary pieces of files that user don't want to download.I don't know whether a partfile highly related to the job that create it or it can be used by another job. But from a user point of view, it is some kind of meta data file that help keep track of torrent download status. And not the data I want to download. I think it is make sense to store it at the same place with torrent file and job status file.And it look better to user when it do not create junk file in download directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Partfiles can get big though. So you can end up in a state where you're out of disk space on the system drive where uT is, but have plenty of space on the torrent drive.It's best it stays with the data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whileloop Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 The partfile is not very big in usual case.I would prefer uTorrent store partfile together with torrents by default and prompt the user if the partfile will be very big (eg. when it will be bigger than 100M). But I don't have a strong argument, just my opinion.On the other hand, I think Bitcomet's feature to insert zero padding file is a good compromise between a solution to boundary pieces problem and compatiblity. If both peers support the feature and do not transfer or create these zero-padding files. Then it can save both bandwidth and disk space as no need to transfer or stored unneeded part of pieces.The disadvantage is if one client do not support this feature it will require extra data transfer for these padding files. But this is not a big problem in usual case, as the sum of padding file are not very big. If both the two major clients, uTorrent and Bitcomet, support this feature, other bt clients will likely to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 On the other hand, I think Bitcomet's feature to insert zero padding file is a good compromise between a solution to boundary pieces problem and compatiblity.It's not because of the way pieces have to be hashed.It's extremely easy to make a torrent that no bitcomet client can complete just by having the padding files be non-null content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenshin Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 So is it not possible to change where partfiles are saved?Having to keep two copies so I can seed and not have the partfiles spoil my folder structure is rather annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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