[Libtorrent-devel] Partial Allocation & XFS?

[Brian Stentzel]

Ever since reformatting my RAID with XFS (not a small task, considering the
amount of data I had to temporarily store elsewhere), I've been encountering
hash fails at 98-99% torrent completion.  Sometimes, the torrents are split
into multiple parts, and those seem to have at least a chance of finishing
properly if, after noticing that the torrent is stuck perpetually
downloading the final missing chunk (not necessarily at the end of the data
set, of course), I stop/remove the torrent, delete the offending .rar piece,
and start it again.  But even that doesn't work every time.  And sometimes,
single-file torrents "just work".

I noticed that Azureus has an XFS-specific partial allocation mode, and am
wondering if my use of XFS is causing the problem here.  I don't have any
non-XFS partitions to test with (except NTFS ones mounted with ntfs-3g), so
I'm hoping someone else will know what I should do.  Also, is there a way to
force "full allocation" with libtorrent/rtorrent?  It seems like that would
solve the problem too.

Thanks.
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