Did not have a look yet at how works libuv and eio, I'm more from the JavaScript side, it's years I haven't look seriously at some C/C++.
Any help to do it as a module, any track to start, is very welcome :) Cheers, Florian 2012/3/1 Brandon Philips <brandon.phil...@rackspace.com> > 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 > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
