- Reproduce **multimedia files** on your favorite video or audio player. These files will be downloaded on demand and only the needed parts.
- 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.
## Getting Started
Get the latest release from [releases](releases-url) page or download the source code and execute `make build`.
Use the [example config file](example-config) and modify it as needed.
Run the program: `distribyted-binary path/to/config/file.yaml`
## Usage
After executing and load all torrent or magnet files, a web interface will be available with information about the mounted routes and torrent files like download/upload speed, leechers, seeders...
### Configuration File
#### root
|Config key|Description|
|-|-|
|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).|
#### mountpoints
|Config key|Description|
|-|-|
|path|Path where a new fuse mount will be initialized.|
|torrents|List of `magnetUri`s or/and `torrentPath`s to be loaded on this fuse mount.|
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