I'm having trouble understanding what BEP-47 exactly is. Care to enlighten me?
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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Here's the link.
If you don't understand, then just think of it as the solution of 99% stuck torrents and need to download part of other files' pieces to check if given file is valid.
These files are the cause of torrents that are stuck at 99%
Quote from your link: "If used incorrectly or maliciously symlinks and padding files can result in internally inconsistent torrents which cannot finish downloading because they contain conflicting hash information."
Exactly, that's why clients with BEP-47 support should:
Ensure that adding and deduplicating such a torrent does not lead to loss of already existing data.
I doubt that there are decent torrent clients implemented BEP-47 without this sanitization, if any.
Torrent-file, also supports BitTorrent v2 — coming with piece alignment by default.
It seems that piece-alignment is not yet supported when creating a v1
Create a hybrid then, it will add BEP-47 to v1 separately (since hybrids can't exist without it) and you will have additional v2 support, with built-in piece alignment, double win.
Does that work with private trackers?
That depends on their rules
Some clients currently do not support downloading hybrid and v2, and v2 has a flaw that can be modified remotely?
so, v2 and hybrid which containing v2 seem to be not a good choice.
I didn't see your comment earlier, pretty much all of them support hybrids, old transmissions till 3.01 are exclusions, and that's because their devs didn't implement their bencoding library according to BEP, but this flaw was fixed in the new versions awhile.
So you're loose to choose hybrids (or hell, even v2 only), protocol was around for a couple of years, don't believe what others' say, those are the pretty much lazy people with low technical background, who are afraid to upgrade their clients for years. Didn't catch that "remote" thing, but there could be no way of modifying data bound to sha256 hash.
BitTorrent v2 — is the future. I suppose there's no need telling its improvements.