[Noisebridge-discuss] Is there a good way to do incrementally updated torrents?

[Patrick Keys]

By design, what makes a "torrent" a specific "torrent" is its md5 hash.
You can't add/modify files in a .torrent without creating a new torrent 
that has a new hash.

That said, for server side, there are scripts available that will 
monitor a directory and generate new torrents when the directory 
contents have changed.  For client side, you can have scripts that will 
periodically check the server for new torrents and start on the new 
torrents automatically.  If there are files in the new torrent that are 
the same, they won't be redownloaded.


Patrick


On 12/7/2010 1:39 PM, Meredith L. Patterson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:07:58PM -0800, Josh Myer wrote:
>> Now to find out how many of these rtorrent can handle simultaneously...
>
> It is possible to pack enough rtorrents onto an EC2 instance to run out of file handles.
>
> Don't ask how I know this.
>
> --mlp
>
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