Hey Florian-
I am a maintainer of attr/acl utils[1] and I think it would just be a
matter of linking libattr into the eio stuff in libuv. Should be pretty
straightforward.
I will look at it later if you don't get to it :)
Brandon
[1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=attr
On 20:08 Thu 01 Mar 2012, Florian Traverse wrote:
> 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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