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transmission package

  1. Bug #183501
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 183501

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Irios (irios) wrote : Re: [Bug 183501] Re: some way to tell finished torrents from unfinished ones

That is what I do with Azureus. It has the added advantage that if the final
destination is in an NTFS partition, you save ENORMOUS fragmentation by
copying the file in one go. Files torrented onto an NTFS drive can end up in
literally thousands of fragments!

2009/6/22 DaCoTa <email address hidden>

> Another use-case for the separate temp folder is the following: the temp
> folder could be on the OS drive and the destination folder on a
> different drive, say a shared network drive or a NAS. Without the
> separate folder, the external drive or the NAS needs to have the drives
> powered up for the complete duration of all downloads. If the temp is on
> the OS drive, the external drive or NAS can power down all drives and
> only needs to wake up when a download is complete and the finished files
> are transferred over. Especially with increasingly popular RAID NAS
> systems, this would have quite an impact on power consumption.
>
> --
> some way to tell finished torrents from unfinished ones
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183501
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