It lets you create a block device (/dev/nbd0) backed by a torrent. Blocks are fetched in the background, or on demand (by prioritizing blocks according to recent read requests).
In practice it works - you can even boot a VM from it - but it's quite slow unless you have lots of seeds. There's a danger, particularly with VMs, that you can hit time outs waiting for a block to be read, unless you adjust some guest kernel parameters.
There are some bootable examples in that page if you want to try it.
It lets you create a block device (/dev/nbd0) backed by a torrent. Blocks are fetched in the background, or on demand (by prioritizing blocks according to recent read requests).
In practice it works - you can even boot a VM from it - but it's quite slow unless you have lots of seeds. There's a danger, particularly with VMs, that you can hit time outs waiting for a block to be read, unless you adjust some guest kernel parameters.
There are some bootable examples in that page if you want to try it.