More on file fragmentation, torrents, etc.....

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Apr 28 13:37:35 UTC 2004


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:43:40PM -0800, t l wrote:
> I just checked the fragmentation on the files in the second torrent (the sources). They are disasterously worse:
> 

Try using the btdownload client in python instead. I believe that opreallocates
the data or can be told to. BT produces fragmented file becaue blocks
arrive slowly in random order.





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