Torrent V2 size discrepancy
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Taking this one as an example: https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php/d99abe87870067968cca2248b61a61e3e5361ea2f0c98a4b
The site reports a total size of 4.05 GB
However, the client reports that the sum of all files included in the torrent totals 3,77 GB.This means there are 0,28 GB of gibberish being downloaded, and I would like to know how it affects user ratio, if ever.
Might not look like a scary number, it is a small torrent after all... I am making this topic as a question for more expert members, the gibberish in question are being downloaded like traditional P2P, or this portion of the torrent is created by the client locally?
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@ianfontinell-0 said in Torrent V2 size discrepancy:
So if I look in my client (BiglyBT), I see the torrent has 962 files, a large number of which are pad files, which are not selected for download by default. I look on my disk, and there are 481 files + 1 folder (8 videos plus 8 thumbs, 465 stills). Those files add up to 3.77 GB. In my experience that's how much gets downloaded and counted against my ratio. The site total size seems to include the pad files, which my client will not download unless I change the settings to include them.
I can't speak for how other clients handle this situation.
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@tnar idk if this matters or is relevant...
I had dual 20tb hard drives mirrored with Exfat format with lots of content.... the content files were showing much much larger sizes on that hard drive than they did on my NTFS drives.
I moved it all to dual NTFS drives and the size went way down more compact.
Apparently its mainly worse if theres tons of small files. They have 'padding' or whatever that goes into it. Maybe its something like that?
And you can see the actual amount of data transferred with the download on your local client... is that different than the site data?
So for example if the servers are Exfat they would see a larger size on disk etc.
Or how AI sees it...
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@cp2000
Space taken on disk (NTFS) is very close to the size shown on the site, however the padding was not downloaded, and the amount downloaded is what is used for ratio calculations. -
@tnar Interesting... at least you only get docked for what you actually download. Thats good
