its a set of files totaling 10 GB or there abbots. most torrent clients allow you to pick/choose what files you want to get from the torrent. I made them this way to cut down on the confusion and offer an alternative to overloaded (and slow) ftp servers.

-Eric

On Jan 9, 2011, at 6:33 AM, gm5729 wrote:

> That is a huge file... I would lxsplit it at a maximium of 4.2GB each
> split or bring them down to cd size at ~555MB splits. The larger a
> torrent file is or any for that matter sent over bandwidth encourages
> Traffic shaping. If you lose a file it is only one small piece not the
> whole file, ie your torrenter dies, or internet connection dies.
> Smaller files too ensure that the end users caches are cleared between
> each file which could possibly limit corruption issues.  I would
> seriously start hitting up the colleges than that support linux with
> mirrors.
> 
> FWIW lxsplit easily handles files over >4GB.
> 
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