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There are actually a couple of implementations of this. I think that I most recently saw it in Pulsar[0]. I'm kind of glad these have never gotten too popular b
by jzelinskie 11y ago
There are actually a couple of implementations of this. I think that I most recently saw it in Pulsar[0].
I'm kind of glad these have never gotten too popular because to maintain a healthy swarm using the BitTorrent protocol, peers should not be prioritizing chunks sequentially.
[0]: https://github.com/steeve/pulsar https://github.com/steeve/pulsar
- rahimnathwani 11y agoPulsar is a bit different. It doesn't present as a filesystem. IIRC it presents an HTTP stream to XBMC. Re: swarm health, Pulsar's predecessor project's README says this: "Doesn't sequential download on bittorrent is bad? Generally, yes. However, XBMCtorrent respects the same requirements "defined" by uTorrent 3. Also, XBMCtorrent tries to make it up to the swarm by seeding while you watch the movie."
- jzelinskie 11y agoYou are correct. I had made an assumption after seeing a TorrentFS type previously[0]. [0]: https://github.com/steeve/pulsar/blob/fb0ed2d4691c683af781cf3ed55202a2c42ca3bc/bittorrent/torrentfs.go#L21 https://github.com/steeve/pulsar/blob/fb0ed2d4691c683af781cf...