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Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by apichat on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:52AM (#40049416)
This tool should be upgrade to use Bittorrent v2 new functions.

https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

Especially merkle hash trees which enable :

- per-file hash trees - directory structure

Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by bardan on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:52AM (#40050134)
somebody check the test functions...
Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by logrot on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @08:16AM (#40051032)
Especially the corrupt torrent test file.
Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by extraduder_ire on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:07PM (#40077658)
Ever since I learned of bittorrent V2, I've been hoping for some per-file index to show up online. I'd love to be able to tag most or all of the bulk media files on my drives with how many copies exist in bittorrent swarms at any time. That way, I could more easily pick out big files for deletion knowing I could easily get another identical copy back later.

I tried doing something like this in the past using ipfs, but I wasn't very successful and didn't find any duplicates.