What Is the File Extension Zed?
The file extension .zed is used all over the world in providing torrent information for BitTorrent clients and is common all across the Internet. Zed contains metainfo, or "information about information," which is a short summary file of other BitTorrent data.
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File Extensions
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File extensions are suffixes placed at the ends of file names to indicate what sort of file they are and what program will run them. A file using the file extension .zed would take the form of [file name].zed. A generic example of a file extension in action would be the file "myreport.txt." "Myreport" is the file name, while ".txt" is the file extension. ".Txt" would indicate that the file is a text document to be opened with a word processing program. BitTorrent, which is one of the more popular peer-to-peer file distribution protocols, uses .zed as a metainfo file.
File Extension .Zed and BitTorrent
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The file extension .zed is usable by BitTorrent as a metainfo file in the torrent file structure. BitTorrent is peer-to-peer software, which allows the trading of file chunks between users, or peers, in order to distribute and download large files over the Internet. Files in the process of distribution are called "torrents," and communities of peers are called "trackers".
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BitTorrent In Detail
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Standard BitTorrent clients like uTorrent, Azureus and BitComet include DHT, bandwidth prioritization, PEX, scheduling and RSS auto-downloading features. DHT, which stands for Distributed Hash Tables, is a distributed tracker function that peers can query to find other peers, which decentralizes the tracking process. PEX stands for Peer Exchange and allows peers to directly trade peer lists, which reduces tracker load, increasing efficiency. RSS commonly stands for Really Simply Syndication and is a method of providing torrent content over the Internet. The most popular BitTorrent client in 2010 is uTorrent.
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