[BitTorrent] Really random?
Harold Feit - Depthstrike.com Administrator
dwknight at depthstrike.com
Wed Jul 14 14:31:39 EDT 2004
Because of new allocation methods, disk space usage does go up sequentially
as pieces are downloaded.
As far as I know (and I may be wrong on this) NTFS supports random file
allocation with sequential filesize increase.
If you have cleared enough space for the files, you should be able to
complete the download normally.
-----Original Message-----
From: rv8ch [mailto:mc at rv8.ch]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:09 AM
To: BitTorrent at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BitTorrent] Really random?
Hi,
I'm a new torrent user, so please forgive me
if this question is already in the archives,
or on a FAQ. I searched the FAQs and could
not find the answer, and Yahoo archives are
a bit of a pain, so I gave up after the second
screen.
I'm downloading a rather large file, about 3GB,
and I don't really see how it could be downloading
"random" chunks when the file seems to be growing
sequentially. Could it be that when I started
the download, I didn't have enough disk space to
create the entire file, and then it defaults to
sequential download? I've since freed up enough
space for the download. I'm on windoze 2k.
Thanks for any enlightenment!
Mickey
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