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Distribyted is an alternative torrent client. It can expose torrent files as a standard FUSE mount or webDAV endpoint and download them on demand, allowing random reads using a fixed amount of disk space.
Features
User Interfaces
Distribyted supports several ways to expose the files to the user or external applications:
Supported
- FUSE: Other applications can access to torrent files directly as a filesystem.
- WebDAV: Applications that supports WebDAV can access torrent files using this protocol. It is recommended when distribyted is running in a remote machine or using docker.
To be supported
- HTTP: distribyted will support direct HTTP access to files.
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. Not useful on
.tar.gzfiles. - 7zip: Similar to Zip. Need for a library similar to zip.
- xz: Only worth it when the file is created using blocks. Possible library here and here.
Not Supported
- gzip: As far as I know, it doesn't support random access.