Populate db from fs

[juliangruber]

It would be cool to say

http.createServer(static(db, __dirname + '/static')).listen(PORT)

level-static would start putting everything in ./static into leveldb, ignoring existant files based on mtimes and watching the directory for further changes.

If a file is requested that isn't in LevelDB yet it should just be served from the FS.

[dominictarr]

I don't think there is much point in doing that directly, but it may be worth doing that via some other mechanism,
like, add metadata that can return the hashes of the things in the db, and then update the things that have changed.

you could use that to get a tophash or a HEAD query, and then have a client that synced that stuff intelligently.

[juliangruber]

Ah, so this isn't the typical nodejs static file server libary, I see