btfs
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btfs
- BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem)
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TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
Something in a similar vein: BTFS, mount a torrent file (or magnet link) as a read only drive https://github.com/johang/btfs
It's really good, and use it a lot of times
- How to create a stream-on-demand for torrent content to VLC!
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Did you know of the BitTorrent FileSystem?
Github Page
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BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTorrent client
Some systems are more appropriate than just those options, but it requires player cooperation.
For instance on Android, NOVA Video Player supports torrent streaming. Or btplay from https://github.com/johang/btfs .
The way they work is better for the network, because it asks only for the N next MB from current position to be available ASAP, but the rest can be downloaded randomly to help the network like a standard client would do.
sparsebundlefs
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Started transferring files to my external hard drive and it corrupted v. anything I can do?
There are some utilities for mounting sparse disk images in user space (FUSE), but I don't have any experience with it. github: SparseBundleFS which seems to have a pretty good README which may help (depending on your familiarity with the terminal and installing stuff from homebrew ).
What are some alternatives?
distribyted - Torrent client with HTTP, fuse, and WebDAV interfaces. Start exploring your torrent files right away, even zip, rar, or 7zip archive contents!
s3fs-fuse - FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3
picotorrent - A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client.
android-file-transfer-linux - Android File Transfer for Linux (and macOS!)
vooki-image-viewer - A cross-platform lightweight image viewer for a fast image preview.
dwarfs - A fast high compression read-only file system for Linux, Windows and macOS
dbxfs - User-space file system for Dropbox
cryfs - Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud
libretorrent - Free and Open Source, full-featured torrent client for Android. Mirrored from https://gitlab.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent
mergerfs - a featureful union filesystem
io - Dataset, streaming, and file system extensions maintained by TensorFlow SIG-IO
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)