publish to npm?

[mikeal]

I’d like to use this, is there a reason it was never published to npm?

[RealDolos]

Well, because I never felt it was ready for primetime.

E.g. the ffi stuff is outright ugly (and I wouldn't be too sure it still works in newer node versions as is, regardless of the ugliness), forking to create a worker process to do sync fallocates is ugly too, the limitations are not great, etc.
It is probably better to re-implement this as a proper extension (be it something nan or neon based). Still a bit of a maintenance burden then, but it would avoid most of the ugliness and limitations.

On top of that, my projects that actually used or could use this have long been migrated to C++ or rust or go or C#, or abandoned.

[michaelwittig]

@mikeal I was just looking for ways to call fallocate in node and came across your issue here. Could you share how you implemented it in the end?