1 Torrent protocol can be used to distribute large, read-only files efficiantly if you
2 allready have shared copies on faster local network (home LAN for example).
4 You can also think of this feature as nice desister recovery solution if you want to have
5 multiple copies of your data somewhere in the cloud, and use aggregate download bandwith
6 which is useful if you try to recover using asymetric ADSL network connections.
8 Torrent protocol in 2011 is best documented at:
10 http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification
12 debian-install.sh - provides additional depenencies from debian package for this feature.
14 config.sh - contains all configuration for single IP instance
18 dpavlin@narada:/srv/cloudstore/torrent$ ./start-tracker.sh 10.60.0.244
20 dpavlin@narada:/srv/cloudstore/torrent$ ./start-seeder.sh
22 dpavlin@narada:/srv/cloudstore$ ./torrent/mktorrent.sh md5/ce53d9b33eb1c8cf609cd8c22fd39202
25 c) cleanup all seeding torrents
27 dpavlin@narada:/srv/cloudstore$ rm -v var/torrent/watch/*