36 lines
1.7 KiB
Markdown
36 lines
1.7 KiB
Markdown
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
![Distribyted Screen Shot][product-screenshot]
|
|
|
|
[product-screenshot]: images/distribyted.gif
|
|
|
|
|
|
## 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](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.
|