johang/btfs
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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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…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 -
…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 -
I guess this: https://github.com/johang/btfs/blob/master/scripts/btplay
comment by palata · 2024-04-16 · in BTFS: BitTorrent 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. 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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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