diff --git a/lib/fs.js b/lib/fs.js
index 9bfd14cd29..10e5b63ee3 100644
--- a/lib/fs.js
+++ b/lib/fs.js
@@ -1867,6 +1867,50 @@ WriteStream.prototype._write = function(data, encoding, cb) {
 };
 
 
+function writev(fd, chunks, position, callback) {
+  function wrapper(err, written) {
+    // Retain a reference to chunks so that they can't be GC'ed too soon.
+    callback(err, written || 0, chunks);
+  }
+
+  const req = new FSReqWrap();
+  req.oncomplete = wrapper;
+  binding.writeBuffers(fd, chunks, position, req);
+}
+
+
+WriteStream.prototype._writev = function(data, cb) {
+  if (typeof this.fd !== 'number')
+    return this.once('open', function() {
+      this._writev(data, cb);
+    });
+
+  const self = this;
+  const len = data.length;
+  const chunks = new Array(len);
+  var size = 0;
+
+  for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+    var chunk = data[i].chunk;
+
+    chunks[i] = chunk;
+    size += chunk.length;
+  }
+
+  writev(this.fd, chunks, this.pos, function(er, bytes) {
+    if (er) {
+      self.destroy();
+      return cb(er);
+    }
+    self.bytesWritten += bytes;
+    cb();
+  });
+
+  if (this.pos !== undefined)
+    this.pos += size;
+};
+
+
 WriteStream.prototype.destroy = ReadStream.prototype.destroy;
 WriteStream.prototype.close = ReadStream.prototype.close;
 
diff --git a/src/node_file.cc b/src/node_file.cc
index e1fb1ce4f3..2230886011 100644
--- a/src/node_file.cc
+++ b/src/node_file.cc
@@ -907,6 +907,60 @@ static void WriteBuffer(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
 }
 
 
+// Wrapper for writev(2).
+//
+// bytesWritten = writev(fd, chunks, position, callback)
+// 0 fd        integer. file descriptor
+// 1 chunks    array of buffers to write
+// 2 position  if integer, position to write at in the file.
+//             if null, write from the current position
+static void WriteBuffers(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
+  Environment* env = Environment::GetCurrent(args);
+
+  CHECK(args[0]->IsInt32());
+  CHECK(args[1]->IsArray());
+
+  int fd = args[0]->Int32Value();
+  Local<Array> chunks = args[1].As<Array>();
+  int64_t pos = GET_OFFSET(args[2]);
+  Local<Value> req = args[3];
+
+  uint32_t chunkCount = chunks->Length();
+
+  uv_buf_t s_iovs[1024];  // use stack allocation when possible
+  uv_buf_t* iovs;
+
+  if (chunkCount > ARRAY_SIZE(s_iovs))
+    iovs = new uv_buf_t[chunkCount];
+  else
+    iovs = s_iovs;
+
+  for (uint32_t i = 0; i < chunkCount; i++) {
+    Local<Value> chunk = chunks->Get(i);
+
+    if (!Buffer::HasInstance(chunk)) {
+      if (iovs != s_iovs)
+        delete[] iovs;
+      return env->ThrowTypeError("Array elements all need to be buffers");
+    }
+
+    iovs[i] = uv_buf_init(Buffer::Data(chunk), Buffer::Length(chunk));
+  }
+
+  if (req->IsObject()) {
+    ASYNC_CALL(write, req, fd, iovs, chunkCount, pos)
+    if (iovs != s_iovs)
+      delete[] iovs;
+    return;
+  }
+
+  SYNC_CALL(write, nullptr, fd, iovs, chunkCount, pos)
+  if (iovs != s_iovs)
+    delete[] iovs;
+  args.GetReturnValue().Set(SYNC_RESULT);
+}
+
+
 // Wrapper for write(2).
 //
 // bytesWritten = write(fd, string, position, enc, callback)
@@ -1248,6 +1302,7 @@ void InitFs(Local<Object> target,
   env->SetMethod(target, "readlink", ReadLink);
   env->SetMethod(target, "unlink", Unlink);
   env->SetMethod(target, "writeBuffer", WriteBuffer);
+  env->SetMethod(target, "writeBuffers", WriteBuffers);
   env->SetMethod(target, "writeString", WriteString);
 
   env->SetMethod(target, "chmod", Chmod);