The present disclosure provides a method for managing resource state information and a system for downloading a resource, which belongs to network communication technologies. According to the method, a target super node receives a file identification of at least one target resource file sent by a Tracker server (204); the target super node configures a download service of each of the at least one target resource file according to the file identification and a local resource storage state (205); and the target super node feeds back service configuration information of each of the at least one target resource file to the Tracker server (206).