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Torrent download directly to network drive? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklinux@lemmy.world
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So.. I can't believe this is even a rabbit hole that I had to go down.

99/10 I find linux operates in a more "it just works" fashion, or at least, I can find some way of getting it to work.

But I have come up against one of the most baffling issues: Is it basically impossible to torrent directly to a network drive in linux?

I'm downloading a largish scientific torrent. Its ~1.5 tb. I consider that to be a big, but not really that big of a dataset.

And what I can-not fathom, is that for whatever reason, it seems practically impossible to torrent directly from my (user) machine to a network attached storage device.

Has any one else ever encountered this issue? This seems ridiculous to me and that I must be missing something very very obvious. But to get this to work, I ended up having to install a torrent client on my NAS and download it directly. Which is not my preferred way to do things.

Thoughts? Reactions? Have you encountered this issue yourself?

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[–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago

There’s plenty of ways to make it happen. Odd that you’re having an issue at all - does your torrent client just not like network mounts?

You can always use a symlink/hard link to the network device, then your client will only see a local path.

This is exactly how I would have expected it to work. I've tried every client I could (qbTorrent, deluge, transmission, might have been a few more). I tried hard links, smb, yep. All of it. And the deeper I went the more of an issue it seemed to be. I genuinely can-not comprehend how a torrent client wouldn't just work with a network drive. I stopped trying to fix the issue because I'm now downloading the torrent using my NAS client (again, NOT my preferred approach. I don't want my NAS doing anything other than being a NAS).

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