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A bittorrent filesystem based on FUSE.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2016-01-02 · latest 2026-07-01

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  1. …Last I checked it was a fairly mature piece of software so hopefully it doesn’t feel unnatural. [0] https://github.com/johang/btfs
    comment by boramalper · 2026-07-01 · in How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
  2. …with BTFS which in a similar vein mounts a torrent file or magnet link as a read only directory https://github.com/johang/btfs
    comment by haunter · 2026-04-24 · in Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
  3. I guess this: https://github.com/johang/btfs/blob/master/scripts/btplay
    comment by palata · 2024-04-16 · in BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
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    BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
    story by pyinstallwoes · 2024-04-16 · 110 comments
  5. 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. Doesn't seem to be an active project anymore though but it still works
    comment by haunter · 2023-02-18 · in TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
  6. …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…
    comment by phh · 2022-03-16 · in BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTorrent client
  7. Hi, A quick glance at https://github.com/johang/btfs/blob/master/src/btfs.cc on line 190 reveals that no seeders would result in an infinite wait state: pthread_cond_wait(&signal_cond, &lock); The author could mitigate this by…
    comment by Randor · 2020-06-20 · in BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory
  8. …reading the file may literally hang: I guess not much software was made with slow I/O in mind. [1]: https://github.com/johang/btfs/issues/7#issuecomment-1916443...
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2020-06-19 · in BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory
  9. …me to look at it and the actual interface into fuse is here whic is at least understandable: https://github.com/johang/btfs/blob/master/src/btfs.cc#L968
    comment by wbkang · 2020-06-19 · in BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory
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    BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory
    story by cab404 · 2020-06-19 · 121 comments
  11. …torrent file, you can use one of the things that mount them as virtual file systems, like btfs ( https://github.com/johang/btfs ).
    comment by rakoo · 2016-08-29 · in Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets
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    BitTorrent file system
    story by matt2000 · 2016-01-02 · 33 comments