BTFS (bittorrent filesystem)
What is this?
With BTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree. The contents of the files will be downloaded on-demand as they are read by applications. Tools like ls, cat and cp works as expected. Applications like vlc and mplayer can also work without changes.
Example usage
$ mkdir mnt
$ btfs video.torrent mnt
$ cd mnt
$ vlc video.mp4
To unmount and shutdown:
$ fusermount -u mnt
Installing on Debian/Ubuntu
# apt-get install btfs
Installing on Arch Linux
# pacman -S btfs
Installing on Gentoo
# emerge -av btfs
Installing on macOS
Use brew to install on macOS.
$ brew install btfs
Dependencies (on Linux)
- fuse ("fuse" in Ubuntu 16.04)
- libtorrent ("libtorrent-rasterbar8" in Ubuntu 16.04)
- libcurl ("libcurl3" in Ubuntu 16.04)
Building from git on a recent Debian/Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libfuse-dev libtorrent-rasterbar-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev g++
$ git clone https://github.com/johang/btfs.git btfs
$ cd btfs
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make
And optionally, if you want to install it:
$ make install
Building on macOS
Use brew to get the dependencies.
$ brew install Caskroom/cask/osxfuse libtorrent-rasterbar autoconf automake pkg-config
$ git clone https://github.com/johang/btfs.git btfs
$ cd btfs
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make
And optionally, if you want to install it:
$ make install