OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project
Please let me ask a bit offtopic question.<p>Bittorrent is based on torrent files which describe a specific list of files. Is it really required to maintain them as a single pack&#x2F;folder? For years I have an idea where one could just tell torrent client where their data storage is (with a flexible granularity ofc), so it could index it and share without any specific torrent file, simply by block hashes. I.e. if I have a file somewhere deep in the tree, and someone wants to download a block that corresponds to that file, or a part of it, it would be served without being a part of some torrent on <i>my</i> side. Why it is not a thing from the beginning?<p>For me the upside is that I could sort and categorize files (even install and forget) without removing&#x2F;doubling them off the “Torrents&#x2F;“ folder. I believe this could reduce maintenance burden, thus seeders will not give up on seeds only because there is too much to handle. And also provide vast deduplication and cross-torrent seeding. It’s like a distributed filesystem, where you autoshare inodes instead of prepared folders.