So for the past 4 days I have been trying to figure out why rtorrent (running on my vm) would not start downloading to my unraid share (ubuntu isos btw) and I found the solution.

 

It turns out all you have to do is modify your fstab line to include cache=mmap and reboot.

Here is an example fstab with the correct fix:

 

sharename    /mnt/placetomntinguestvm    9p    msize=262144,trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,cache=mmap,rw 0 0
 

 

 

I just created an account to say THANK YOU

 

I have been struggling with this for so long and your fix was the first thing that actually worked. Torrents are now downloading finally.

 

I prefer running rtorrent on a VM, its faster than in docker