Hi everyone :)

I'd like to know the best way to get and store filesystem extended
attributes ( http://linux.die.net/man/2/getxattr ) from a nodejs webserver
which only retrieves and stores files with a high throughput according to a
rest api, so I/O is very important here, and handling the biggest number of
request (and as quick as possible, of course, but it's yet a bit less
important) is the main goal to achieve.

I haven't seen anything for this in "fs" module, and I did not find after a
quick search a relevant module on npm.

I guess running "getfattr" (http://linux.die.net/man/1/getfattr) and parse
output will not scale and will be pretty slow.

I think that making a nodejs addon would work pretty well, but I have never
written any, and it seems to be a synchronous call... So, I just don't know
if I should set a synchronous api on top of it, or try to write an
asynchronous one, and if so, how I should write it, in order to achieve the
best performance ?

Cheers,
Florian

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