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Nezmer wrote:It would be great If I can rename files to be downloaded (especially before adding the torrent) .
It's useful to fix mislabeled torrents and to avoid character-encoding incompatibilities .

Should I file a feature-request ?

No, it's already been added to trunk.

cbrigstocke wrote:Are you sure you had a torrent highlighted when you clicked on the tabs?

Yes! Of course I had a torrent highlighted... and I tried many times... thinking that maybe was a glitch or something... but no... there's nothing in those tabs... Come on man, I have a background of 10 years in computers... I know my sh*t

Here are some shots with Deluge 1.0.5 (the package is from the Deluge website, not from getdeb or other sources) on Ubuntu 8.10 x64 ....

I've removed (including configuration files) the package "deluge-torrent_1.0.5-1_amd64.intrepid.deb" and I've installed a new one from getdeb...

Guess what? Everything works perfect now... I have Peers, Statistics, and access to files

So it's something with the packaging for Ubuntu.... you guys better fix that because maybe there are others with the same problem

Best regards!

mariusn wrote:

cbrigstocke wrote:Are you sure you had a torrent highlighted when you clicked on the tabs?

Yes! Of course I had a torrent highlighted... and I tried many times... thinking that maybe was a glitch or something... but no... there's nothing in those tabs... Come on man, I have a background of 10 years in computers... I know my sh*t

Here are some shots with Deluge 1.0.5 (the package is from the Deluge website, not from getdeb or other sources) on Ubuntu 8.10 x64 ....

Check the logs for errors

andar wrote:

Nezmer wrote:It would be great If I can rename files to be downloaded (especially before adding the torrent) .
It's useful to fix mislabeled torrents and to avoid character-encoding incompatibilities .

Should I file a feature-request ?

No, it's already been added to trunk.

Good news.

Deluge is my favourite client now .

The only item remaining in my wishlist is to have an alternative method for 'full allocation' . Using sparse files may cause fragmentation .

I personally use XFS partitions for downloading . XFS has its own alternative allocation method (allocation without writing 1's) . Having the choice to use that method would be great but this solution wouldn't serve all users .

What would be a good (but dirty) solution for all users is to have the choice to use 'real' full allocation (Writing 1's to allocate the size needed) .

Is it hard to implement a third allocation method so we have :
1- Compact allocation .
2- Full allocation (sparse) .
3- Full allocation (real) .

Nezmer wrote: The only item remaining in my wishlist is to have an alternative method for 'full allocation' . Using sparse files may cause fragmentation .

I personally use XFS partitions for downloading . XFS has its own alternative allocation method (allocation without writing 1's) . Having the choice to use that method would be great but this solution wouldn't serve all users .

What would be a good (but dirty) solution for all users is to have the choice to use 'real' full allocation (Writing 1's to allocate the size needed) .

Is it hard to implement a third allocation method so we have :
1- Compact allocation .
2- Full allocation (sparse) .
3- Full allocation (real) .

We already use sparse files : http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Faq# ... allocation

They were suggesting we could have alternate full allocation, an option to have real data (filled with 1's), not sparse.

It could be done as libtorrent does facilitate this, we just never felt that option was necessary since sparse files are better in pretty much all ways. I could add it, but I likely won't do so until 1.2.

andar wrote: we just never felt that option was necessary since sparse files are better in pretty much all ways.

Well , Using sparse files used to be a cool idea . But new techniques were implemented in filesystems to overcome the disadvantages(1) of using sparse files . Ext4 will follow the path XFS started by implementing 'Persistent pre-allocation' and 'Delayed allocation'(2)(3) .

What I'm hoping for is that Deluge's (or libtorrent's) code is flexible enough to make it easy including those techniques in the future .

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file#Disadvantages
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4#Persi ... allocation
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_allocation

I still have a problem with the 1.0.5 version, which is related in this thread :
http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtop ... &sk=t&sd=a

(deluge crashes with french language). However, this might be a distro specific problem.