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by eatbitseveryday 1229 days ago
> Newly-added seeds can start immediately and verify pieces on demand, instead of needing a full verify before seeding can begin.

This is a huge annoyance for me with torrent clients. Files that are 80GB or larger take days to verify before they can seed. Having this feature (which makes sense to do) is a more sane way to do it.

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Days? I don't think even my 2nd gen RPi hashes files that slow.
Never have seen that long hashing even on low power devices.