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

Patrick Keys citizenkeys at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 00:28:44 UTC 2010


When you start a torrent that has multiple files,
if the directory on the client side already has some of the files in it,
the bittorrent client app (utorrent, rtorrent, etc) will compare those 
specific files with the .torrent to see how complete they are.
If they are the same files referenced in the .torrent and they are complete,
bittorrent has no need to replace them by redownloading.


Patrick


On 12/7/2010 4:18 PM, Sai wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Patrick Keys<citizenkeys at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> If there are files in the new torrent that are the same, they won't be redownloaded.
>
> Could you elaborate on this? It seems the crux of the issue to me, and
> I thought that they will be.
>
> - Sai



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