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Anyone know why this is done as so many tiny torrents? Torrent users can already choose which files to download from a torrent, so why not do this as a smaller
by xamuel 8y ago
Anyone know why this is done as so many tiny torrents? Torrent users can already choose which files to download from a torrent, so why not do this as a smaller number of larger torrents?
- jacquesm 8y agoThey're not that tiny. That's many thousands of papers / torrent, the file names are the paper id ranges in the system.
- nneonneo 8y agoThe torrents each weigh in at 80.9 GiB on average, so they are not small. Each torrent contains 100 .zip files, which each in turn contain 1000 publications (averaging just under 1 MiB per publication). There's a total of 69 million publications here - it's a very hefty collection.