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What is Swarm Merging?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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That's awesome! I suppose it might also explain why this torrent has been sitting in my queue for several weeks and is now suddenly at 100% from this one seeder. Do you know if the process is automated? Or does the user have to do the work of finding the torrents with matching files themselves? It's a bummer that qBittorrent apparently doesn't support it.
At least in BiglyBT, the process is automated. The match is based on exact file size; it's a crappy technique* (as the odds of a false match are rather high) and the usage case is fairly small (two identical files across different torrents), so not too commonly used.
*odds are that Vuze implemented it this way because requesting a hash would break the BitTorrent protocol, and prevent interoperability of multiple clients.