Issue 29: Use soft/hard linking to continue seed your torrent
Status:  WontFix
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Closed:  Dec 2011
Project Member Reported by login...@gmail.com, Dec 4, 2011
Linux filesystem is fantastic, we could do some thing that windows are not able to do. 

Suppose that you want to use torrentexpander on a torrent. By default it made a copy of your data in other directory. Then you use double space of HD. If you use destructive_mode it will cancel original data, but the torrent client will be annoying. Worst thing is about ratio problem because 'no file' --> 'data not found' --> 'no ratio'.

Best solution at all?
We could use soft/hard link to have the same file in two different folder at the same time. 

Soft or Hard link?
Have both option is better. I'm not sure that transmission like soft link, but it would be better because 'delete link' -> 'file remain'. With a hard link we must do 'delete link' == 'delete file'.
Dec 4, 2011
Project Member #1 addicted...@gmail.com
This is a feature I won't implement
I was uncomfortable implementing destructive_mode but I implemented it because it was asked by users.
Using soft links can fail if :
- torrent is made up of rar/zip archives
- you use permission settings
- you link torrentexpander to a third party app like flexget
- you reset timestamp
- other cases I can't think about

This is a nice idea, but the probability for it to work is too low, and whatever checks I do to enable or disable destructive_mode based on the nature of the torrent may fuck up in so many ways
Status: WontFix