Question

I don’t know if this is a valid question but is there a documentation out there describing each property from the result of fs.stat() in nodejs. Because I am trying to find the meaning of each of those properties but no luck.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Comments in the node_file.cc source that builds the stat object (BuildsStatsObject function) may conveniently help you out with this. In summary for reference:

• dev : ID of device containing file
• ino : inode number
• mode : protection
• nlink : number of hard links
• uid : user ID of owner
• gid : group ID of owner
• rdev : device ID (if special file)
• size : total size, in bytes
• atime – time of last access
• mtime – time of last modification
• ctime – time of last status change

and if POSIX

• blksize : blocksize for filesystem I/O
• blocks : number of blocks allocated