From cac735e4056263718ffc885799e4ef08fbcf7c25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arno Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 16:54:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: clarify that rTorrent needs to have access to Flood's temp dir --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 02660e2a..83d2840e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Run the installation command again. - Windows users can use [Cygwin](https://www.cygwin.com/) to install rTorrent. - [Compile](https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/wiki/Installing): XMLRPC support flag (`--with-xmlrpc-c`) is required during compilation. - Certain features (sequential download, initial seeding, etc.) are not available in vanilla rTorrent. + - rTorrent needs to have read access to files of temporary directory of Flood (`/temp`) as Flood adds torrents to rTorrent by local file path ([96c754dd](https://github.com/jesec/flood/commit/96c754ddeb614b45a565e8307c9985ee85bcb7fa)). This is because rTorrent uses a rather antique XML-RPC interface, which usually has certain limitations (size of body) and is unreliable in handling large binary objects ([Flood-UI/flood#164](https://github.com/Flood-UI/flood/issues/164), [Flood-UI/flood#741](https://github.com/Flood-UI/flood/issues/741), [Flood-UI/flood#773](https://github.com/Flood-UI/flood/issues/773)). See [#86](https://github.com/jesec/flood/discussions/86). - Ask for help in the [Flood Discord server](https://discord.gg/Z7yR5Uf). ### Docker