I *think* he wants to wait until the data is flushed to disc before returning a 
201 or some such thing to an API client.

On Sep 24, 2012, at September 24, 20129:20 PM, Ben Noordhuis 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Andris Reinman
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What would be the best way to detect a file has been written to disk? Once I
>> have passed all the data to a fs.WriteStream, the data is at first buffered
>> by node and written to the disk asynchronously. There is no "end" or "close"
>> event to listen to (or at least these don't trigger on my system (node
>> v0.8.9)) when all bytes are actually written to the disk.
>> 
>> The best I have come up to is to listen to the "drain" event and then
>> compare writablestream.bytesWritten and the length of the data I sent to the
>> stream.
>> 
>> var len = 0;
>> myReadStream.on("data", function(chunk){
>>    myWriteStream.write(chunk);
>>    len += chunk.length;
>> });
>> 
>> myWriteStream.on("drain", function(){
>>    if(myWriteStream.bytesWritten == len){
>>        console.log("All bytes written to disk");
>>    }
>> });
>> 
>> But this doesn't seem very future proof, what if the conditions for the
>> 'drain' event with file write change one day? Is there a better way for
>> this?
> 
> Doesn't myReadStream.pipe(myWriteStream) work?
> 
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