Really curious about this. Also fsync or not? Is this controllable via api?

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On Sep 25, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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