fs-ads

Js module to manipulate NTFS Alternate Data Stream (ADS) on windows.

Alternate data streams allow more than one data stream to be associated with a filename (a fork),

using the format filename:streamname (e.g., text.txt:extrastream).

You can store extended attributes by ADS in NTFS on windows as an alternative form of fs-xattr

Installation

npm install --save fs-ads

Usage

const ads = require('fs-ads')

API

ads.get(path, streamName[, options], cb)

Get Alternate Data Stream streamName from file at path.

options is an object that used to set the encoding of ads. The default encoding is utf-8. You can set some custom encoding.

options = { encoding: 'utf-8' } // default
options = { encoding: 'ascii' } // use ascii
options = { encoding: null } // the raw buffer is returned

cb is a callback that will be called with (err, val).

ads.getSync(path, streamName[, options])

Synchronous version of ads.get

ads.set(path, streamName, value[, options], cb)

Set Alternate Data Stream streamName to value on file at path.

value can be either a string or a Buffer.

options is an object that used to set the encoding of ads. The encoding option is ignored if data is a Buffer. It defaults to utf-8.

options = { encoding: 'utf-8' } // default
options = { encoding: 'hex' } // use hex

cb is a callback that will be called with (err).

ads.setSync(path, streamName[, options], value)

Synchronous version of ads.set

ads.remove(path, streamName, cb)

Remove Alternate Data Stream streamName on file at path.

cb is a callback that will be called with (err).

ads.removeSync(path, streamName)

Synchronous version of ads.remove