[p2p-hackers] Generalizing BitTorrent..

[Jesus Cea]

Bryan Turner wrote:
> 	In effect, a torrent file is already a catalog of how to glue the
> pieces together!  The main difference is in what you're looking for - a
> piece or an entire torrent.  I propose looking for each piece separately,
> while Bit Torrent searches for each torrent as a whole.

Exactly.

An implementation problem is that a lot of BT clients keep an "open file 
descriptor" active for each file in the torrent, reaching easily the OS 
limit.

They should keep only a small number of file descriptors around, perhaps 
reusing them in a LRU or random way.

Braindead clients... :-)

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