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Today, I will talk to you about what the Bittorrent file system based on FUSE is like. Many people may not know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following contents for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

Bittorrent has been around for a long time and can share and download data from the Internet. There are a large number of GUI and CLI Bittorrent clients on the market. Sometimes you can't sit down and wait for your download to finish. You may want to watch the content immediately. This is where BTFS, a humble file system, comes in handy. With BTFS, you can mount seed files or magnetic links as directories and then use them as read-only directories in the file tree. The contents of these files will be downloaded on demand as the program reads. Because BTFS runs on top of FUSE, there is no need to interfere with the Linux kernel.

Install BTFS

BTFS exists in the default repository of most Linux distributions.

On Arch Linux and its variants, run the following command to install BTFS.

$sudo pacman-S btfs

On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint:

$sudo apt-get install btfs

On Gentoo:

# emerge-av btfs

BTFS can also be installed using the Linuxbrew package manager.

$brew install btfs usage

The use of BTFS is very simple. All you have to do is find the .torrent file or magnetic link and mount it to a directory. The contents of the seed file or magnetic link will be mounted to the directory of your choice. When a program tries to access the file for reading, the actual data will be downloaded on demand. In addition, tools such as ls, cat, and cp can manipulate seeds the way they are expected. Programs like vlc and mplayer can also work without modification. Players don't even know that the actual content doesn't exist physically on the local disk, but is collected from peer as needed.

Create a directory to mount the torrent/magnet link:

$mkdir mnt

Mount the torrent/magnet link:

$btfs video.torrent mnt

Cd to directory:

$cd mnt

Then, start watching!

$vlc

Give BTFS some time to find and get the website tracker. Once the real data is loaded, tracker is no longer required for BTFS.

To unmount the BTFS file system, simply run the following command:

$fusermount-u mnt

Now the contents of the mount directory will disappear. To access the content again, you need to mount the torrent as described above.

BTFS will turn your VLC or Mplayer into popcorn time. Upload the seed file or magnetic link of your favorite TV show or movie and start watching without downloading the entire seed content or waiting for the download to complete. The content of the seed or magnetic link will be downloaded on demand when the program is accessed.

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