Symlink/Hardlink/Keeplink - torrent share doubts
Posted: 05 Oct 2022, 09:51
I use ZFS as filesystem and each media folder is separated in datasets, something like this:
Problem here is that I am not able to hardlinking files when a download finishes due to ZFS capabilities (each dataset is roughly like a different filesystem). With all of this, it comes up some questions:
[*] Will the filebot rename be performed in the target folder (where the original files will be moved) or in the input one (the symlinks that will be created)? I guess it will be in the target folder, but I prefer to confirm! E.g.:
Input folder (where it is downloaded): /mnt/download/TV_Mediafile.mkv
Target folder (where the original file is moved): /mnt/media/movies/Renamed_TV_Mediafile.mkv
Now the downloaded file is in /mnt/media/movies with the filename modified by Filebot, and the symlink is in the original path (/mnt/download/TV_Mediafile.mkv)
[*] In case of the rename is in the target one, do you know if qBittorrent will be able to share the file after perform the keeplink action? As the files would be moved and renamed to the target folder, I don't know if the tracker will interpret the new symlinks as valid files. If I am not wrong, the tracker website looks for a file with the original name which it was downloaded, and a symlink is only a link to an inode (but the original file now has a different name!), it is not like a hardlink which share the same inode.
I don't know if you understand my question
Thank you!
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tank/media
tank/media/movies
tank/media/tv
tank/torrent_downloads
[*] Will the filebot rename be performed in the target folder (where the original files will be moved) or in the input one (the symlinks that will be created)? I guess it will be in the target folder, but I prefer to confirm! E.g.:
Input folder (where it is downloaded): /mnt/download/TV_Mediafile.mkv
Target folder (where the original file is moved): /mnt/media/movies/Renamed_TV_Mediafile.mkv
Now the downloaded file is in /mnt/media/movies with the filename modified by Filebot, and the symlink is in the original path (/mnt/download/TV_Mediafile.mkv)
[*] In case of the rename is in the target one, do you know if qBittorrent will be able to share the file after perform the keeplink action? As the files would be moved and renamed to the target folder, I don't know if the tracker will interpret the new symlinks as valid files. If I am not wrong, the tracker website looks for a file with the original name which it was downloaded, and a symlink is only a link to an inode (but the original file now has a different name!), it is not like a hardlink which share the same inode.
I don't know if you understand my question

Thank you!