Transmission/uTorrent seed files dir incompatiblity[Solved]

CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3640

Hi dear all,

I currently run Gentoo on a dual boot system with M$. In M$ I have uTorrent running with files located in differents directories on a dedicated partition.

I wish to make my Gentoo session to seed the same as M$ session.

My understanding of Transmission is that all seeded data are expected to be in a single directory.
So I guess I should reorganize my uTorrent data accordingly in order to share it with Gentoo/Transmission.

Can anyone advise me in this regard?

Thanks for your attention.

bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

I'm not sure about transmission (though from a quick google it looks like people have asked but transmission still doesn't have this ability) but if you want try rtorrent you can watch multiple directories for torrent files and have different destination directories.

check out this page

rtorrent is certainly more complicated to get set up and you would probably want to use a web ui (I use rutorrent) but it is super efficient and uses very little resources and is very powerful once set up correctly.

for example I am running 500+ torrents on a sheevaplug and it only uses 5-10% cpu and 125Mb+ of ram. Pretty sweet.
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CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3640

Thanks for pointing at an alternative

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For sure reorganising the original directory structure should be avoided.

Let me study first, then I'll be able to make my decision to switch to it or not.

Thanks for your attention, interest ans support.

CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3640

Seems like:
rTorrent does like NTFS EDIT rTorrent doesn't like NTFS.

Transmission has issues with files > 2Gb.

Since some of my files are bigger than 2Gb, the only solution for me is now to convert my partition to fat32 (if it doesn't raise any issue with rTorrent).

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:46 pm Post subject:

Also I'm not sure - some torrent clients' intermediate/incomplete files may not be compatible with each other. I think rtorrent intermediate files are verbatim sparse copies of the file, but other torrent clients are unsorted (the latter are less likely to fragment the disk).

Other than specifying the directories it should be compatible... just depends on the software you use.

I'm an rtorrent user, but I don't know windows clients directory structure, so not sure how compatible it is. Dumps everything where I want it though.
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CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3640

Well uTorrent doesn't impose any directory structure, it is just something of my own, for clarity mainly.
As of switching from one boot to another expecting alternate torrent client to pursue any pending download is out of scope.

Of course any new fully downloaded file to be manually inserted in the alternate client.
I hope rTorrent is capable of seeding a file it didn't download.

Thanks for your attention, interest and support.

N.B. uTorrent has an alpha for linux, not in portage though. I also don't want to fight to make it work.

bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3640

Hi dear all,
Oups, my bad :oops:

. I should have written

bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

just an fyi it appears rtorrent works fine with nfts as long as you use ntfs-3g and kernel >2.6.26 as found in this bug report . Though I'm certainly not trying to push rtorrent as transmission is a wonderful client but the one directory issue could be a deal breaker.
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