64 MiB piece size suggestion about torf HOT 5 CLOSED

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In the end I didn't manage to establish what the maximum commonly supported piece size is, but I started to limit it to 4 MiB and so far received no complaints. That might be a bit too extreme, though.

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https://wiki.theory.org/index.php/BitTorrentSpecification says:

Current best-practice is to keep the piece size to 512KB or less, for torrents around 8-10GB, even if that results in a larger .torrent file. This results in a more efficient swarm for sharing files. The most common sizes are 256 kB, 512 kB, and 1 MB.

After reading these guidelines, I think I might decrease it even further down to 1 MiB. But yeah that article is just a recommendation, whereas my original report was about software that downright refuses to download the torrents of certain sizes. Unfortunately I cannot comment precisely on what is safe and what is not.

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Yes, thank you, definitely, I was good even before with the manual override of piece size exceeding 4 MiB in my scripts. I only wanted to bring to your attention that there were users who would have troubles with torrents created by the prior implementation. Closing the issue :)

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