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 a recent Ubuntu (Wily, Vivid or Trusty)

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:johang/btfs
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install btfs

Dependencies

• fuse ("fuse" in Debian/Ubuntu)
• libtorrent ("libtorrent-rasterbar7" in Debian/Ubuntu)
• libcurl ("libcurl3" in Debian/Ubuntu)

Building from git on a recent Ubuntu

$ apt-get install autoconf automake libfuse-dev libtorrent-rasterbar-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/johang/btfs.git btfs
$ cd btfs
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make