[Libtorrent-devel] Re: Libtorrent-devel Digest, Vol 34, Issue 8

[Dave Holt]

> HFS requires the files to be allocated and zeroed on disk upon closing
> the last reference to the file. So closing rtorrent or a torrent will
> cause it to hang while it writes the untouched parts of the file to
> disk. Not that much I can do about it, though lazy creation of files is
> a planned feature.

oh ok, thanks - so there's currently no way to tell rtorrent to not
create the files it's not using?

dave