SYNOPSIS

A levelup compatible abstraction for node's fs module to use the file system as a backing store.

Note that this is NOT PERFORMANT. File systems incur lots of syscalls, also, readdir(3) provides no gaurentees about ordering, so it requires a sort-stream. Basically, it shouldn't be used in any kind of hot path. It's sole purpose is to provide the common interface of levelup to storing and retriving items.

BUILDS/TESTS

USAGE

const Fsdown = require('level-fsdown')

let db = levelup(__dirname, {
  db: Fsdown,
  valueEncoding: 'json'
})


db.put(['foo', 'bar'], { hello: 'world' }, (err) => {
  if (err) throw err

  // a file containing the json `{ hello: 'world' }` was
  // written to the location `<__dirname>/foo/bar.json`.

  db.get(['foo', 'bar'], (err, value) => {
    if (err) throw err
    console.log(value)
  })
})

When keys are provided as arrays, they are joined with the appropriate path.sep and then prefixed with the location as specified by the constructor.

Supports get, put, del, batch and createReadStream methods.