file-disk

file-disk

Handles reads / writes on disk image files.

API

Warning: The API exposed by this library is still forming and can change at any time!

FileDisk

new FileDisk(fd, readOnly, recordWrites, recordReads, discardIsZero=true)

• fd is a file descriptor returned by fs.open
• readOnly a boolean (default false)
• recordWrites, a boolean (default false); if you use readOnly without recordWrites, all write requests will be lost.
• recordReads, a boolean (default false): cache reads in memory
• discardIsZero, a boolean (default true): don't read discarded regions, return zero filled buffers instead.

FileDisk.getCapacity(): Promise<Number>

FileDisk.read(buffer, bufferOffset, length, fileOffset): Promise<{ bytesRead: Number, buffer: Buffer }>

• behaves like fs.read

FileDisk.write(buffer, bufferOffset, length, fileOffset): Promise<{ bytesWritten: Number, buffer: Buffer }>

• behaves like fs.write

FileDisk.flush(): Promise<void>

• behaves like fs.fdatasync

FileDisk.discard(offset, length): Promise<void>

FileDisk.getStream([position, [length, [highWaterMark]]]): Promise<stream.Readable>

• position start reading from this offset (defaults to 0)
• length read that amount of bytes (defaults to (disk capacity - position))
• highWaterMark (defaults to 16384, minimum 16) is the size of chunks that will be read

FileDisk.getDiscardedChunks() returns the list of discarded chunks. Each chunk has a start and end properties. end position is inclusive.

FileDisk.getBlockMap(blockSize, calculateChecksums: Promise<blockmap.BlockMap>

• using the disk's discarded chunks and the given blockSize, it returns a Promise of a BlockMap. Be careful to how you use Disk's discardIsZero option as it may change the blockmap ranges checksums if discarded regions not aligned with blockSize contain anything else than zeros on the disk.

S3Disk

S3Disk has been moved to a separate repository.

Examples

Read 1024 first bytes, write them starting at position 1024 then flush.

const Bluebird = require('bluebird');
const filedisk = require('file-disk');

Bluebird.using(filedisk.openFile('/path/to/some/file', 'r+'), async (fd) => {
	const disk = new filedisk.FileDisk(fd)

	// get file size
	const size = await disk.getCapacity();
	console.log("size:", size);
	const buf = Buffer.alloc(1024);
	// read `buf.length` bytes starting at 0 from the file into `buf`
	const { bytesRead, buffer } = await disk.read(buf, 0, buf.length, 0);
	// write `buffer` into file starting at `buffer.length` (in the file)
	await disk.write(buf, 0, buf.length, buf.length);
	// flush
	await disk.flush();
});

Open a file readOnly, use the recordWrites mode, then stream the contents somewhere.

const Bluebird = require('bluebird');
const filedisk = require('file-disk');

const BUF = Buffer.alloc(1024);

Bluebird.using(filedisk.openFile('/path/to/some/file', 'r'), async (fd) => {
	const disk = new filedisk.FileDisk(fd, true, true);
	let bytesRead, bytesWritten, buffer;

	// read `BUF.length` bytes starting at 0 from the file into `BUF`
	{ bytesRead, buffer } = await disk.read(BUF, 0, BUF.length, 0);
	// write `buffer` into file starting at `buffer.length` (in the file)
	{ bytesWritten, buffer } = await disk.write(buffer, 0, buffer.length, buffer.length);
	const buf2 = Buffer.alloc(1024);
	// read what we've just written
	{ bytesRead, buffer } = await disk.read(buf2, 0, buffer.length, 0);
	// writes are stored in memory
	assert(BUF.equals(buffer));
	const stream = await disk.getStream();
	// pipe the stream somewhere
	await new Bluebird((resolve, reject) => {
		stream.pipe(someWritableStream)
		.on('close', resolve)
		.on('error', reject);
	});
});