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When deluge moves torrent files via 'move storage' it suspends all activities - stops seeding and downloading, when files are moved to a different filesystem this results in a sizeable delay. Is it possible to move files without affecting other torrents? - e.g. pause, move, restart. 1.3.15 linux

I've found this exact same thing, and you're right, everything else stops. And the move is very slow. 1gb will take hours. Definite fault with Deluge.

It's not deluge's "fault" though. Libtorrent-rasterbar's move_storage() function, called by deluge, will block disk IO when moving to other drive(as copy/deletes), which block downloading/seeding. It's been reported often for many years btw. Cas stated once that it seemingly would be improved in libtorrent 1.1.x, but the disk IO blocking and impacting seeding/download, still is referenced in libtorrent's API docs however.

I understand. I didn't know how much Deluge leans on an underlying code library. It's too bad that move_storage hasn't been improved. I could understand locking down the file(s) being moved but not everything.