- Explore TBs of data from public **datasets** only downloading the parts you need. Use **Jupyter Notebooks** directly to process or analyze this data.
- Play your **ROM backups** directly from the torrent file. You can have virtually GBs in games and only downloaded the needed ones.
### Supported _Expandable_ File Formats
Distribyted can show some kind of files directly as folders, making it possible for applications read only the parts that they need. Here is a list of supported, to be supported and not supported formats.
#### Supported
- zip: Able to uncompress just one file. The file is decompressed to a temporal file sequentially to make possible seek over it. The decompression stops if no one is reading it.
#### To Be Supported
- tar: Seek to any file and inside that files using a [modified standard library](https://github.com/ajnavarro/go-tar). Not useful on `.tar.gz` files.
- 7zip: Similar to Zip. Need for a library similar to [zip](https://github.com/saracen/go7z).
- xz: Only worth it when the file is created using blocks. Possible library [here](https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz) and [here](https://github.com/frrad/bxzf).
#### Not Supported
- gzip: As far as I know, it doesn't support random access.
--config value YAML file containing distribyted configuration. (default: "./distribyted-data/config.yaml") [$DISTRIBYTED_CONFIG]
--http-port value HTTP port for web interface (default: 4444) [$DISTRIBYTED_HTTP_PORT]
--fuse-allow-other Allow other users to acces to all fuse mountpoints. You need to add user_allow_other flag to /etc/fuse.conf file. (default: false) [$DISTRIBYTED_FUSE_ALLOW_OTHER]
|max-cache-size| Size in MB for the cache. This is the maximum space used by distribyted to store torrent data. Less used torrent data will be discarded if this value is reached.|
|metadata-folder-name| Folder where distribyted metadata will be stored.|
|mountPoints|List of folders where torrents will be mounted as a filesystem. Possible configuration keys described [here](#mountpoints).|
|path|Path where a new fuse mount will be initialized. On Windows you can use a drive letter (`X:` per example) or a folder path that **does not exist**.|
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