diff --git a/doc/api.txt b/doc/api.txt
index 1e7abcfb20..75b02d6009 100644
--- a/doc/api.txt
+++ b/doc/api.txt
@@ -785,6 +785,86 @@ Objects returned from +fs.stat()+ and +fs.lstat()+ are of this type.
 
 +stats.isSocket()+:: ...
 
+=== +fs.FileReadStream+
+
+[cols="1,2,10",options="header"]
+|=========================================================
+|Event           | Parameters          | Notes
+
+|+"open"+        | +fd+                | The file descriptor was opened.
+|+"data"+        | +chunk+             | A chunk of data was read.
+|+"error"+       | +err+               | An error occured. This stops the stream.
+|+"end"+         |                     | The end of the file was reached.
+|+"close"+       |                     | The file descriptor was closed.
+|=========================================================
+
++fs.createReadStream(path, [options]);+ ::
+Returns a new FileReadStream object.
++
++options+ is an object with the following defaults:
++
+----------------------------------------
+{ "flags": "r"
+, "encoding": "binary"
+, "mode": 0666
+, "bufferSize": 4 * 1024
+}
+----------------------------------------
+
++readStream.readable+ ::
+A boolean that is +true+ by default, but turns +false+ after an +"error"+
+occured, the stream came to an "end", or +forceClose()+ was called.
+
++readStream.pause()+ ::
+Stops the stream from reading further data. No +"data"+ event will be fired
+until the stream is resumed.
+
++readStream.resume()+ ::
+Resumes the stream. Together with +pause()+ this useful to throttle reading.
+
++readStream.forceClose()+ ::
+Allows to close the stream before the +"end"+ is reached. No more events other
+than +"close"+ will be fired after this method has been called.
+
+=== +fs.FileWriteStream+
+
+[cols="1,2,10",options="header"]
+|=========================================================
+|Event           | Parameters          | Notes
+
+|+"open"+        | +fd+                | The file descriptor was opened.
+|+"drain"+       |                     | No more data needs to be written.
+|+"error"+       | +err+               | An error occured. This stops the stream.
+|+"close"+       |                     | The file descriptor was closed.
+|=========================================================
+
++fs.createWriteStream(path, [options]);+ ::
+Returns a new FileWriteStream object.
++
++options+ is an object with the following defaults:
++
+----------------------------------------
+{ "flags": "r"
+, "encoding": "binary"
+, "mode": 0666
+}
+----------------------------------------
+
++writeStream.writeable+ ::
+A boolean that is +true+ by default, but turns +false+ after an +"error"+
+occured or +close()+ / +forceClose()+ was called.
+
++writeStream.write(data)+ ::
+Returns +true+ if the data was flushed to the kernel, and +false+ if it was
+queued up for being written later. A +"drain"+ will fire after all queued data
+has been written.
+
++writeStream.close()+ ::
+Closes the stream right after all queued +write()+ calls have finished.
+
++writeStream.forceClose()+ ::
+Allows to close the stream regardless of its current state.
+
 == HTTP
 
 To use the HTTP server and client one must +require("http")+.
diff --git a/lib/fs.js b/lib/fs.js
index 3fd95de4d5..74e1e3ef85 100644
--- a/lib/fs.js
+++ b/lib/fs.js
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+var
+  sys = require('sys'),
+  events = require('events');
+
 exports.Stats = process.Stats;
 
 process.Stats.prototype._checkModeProperty = function (property) {
@@ -421,3 +425,203 @@ exports.realpath = function (path, callback) {
   }
   next();
 }
+
+exports.createReadStream = function(path, options) {
+  return new FileReadStream(path, options);
+};
+
+var FileReadStream = exports.FileReadStream = function(path, options) {
+  events.EventEmitter.call(this);
+
+  this.path = path;
+  this.fd = null;
+  this.readable = true;
+  this.paused = false;
+
+  this.flags = 'r';
+  this.encoding = 'binary';
+  this.mode = 0666;
+  this.bufferSize = 4 * 1024;
+
+  process.mixin(this, options || {});
+
+  var
+    self = this,
+    buffer = null;
+
+  function read() {
+    if (!self.readable || self.paused) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    fs.read(self.fd, self.bufferSize, undefined, self.encoding, function(err, data, bytesRead) {
+      if (err) {
+        self.emit('error', err);
+        self.readable = false;
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (bytesRead === 0) {
+        self.emit('end');
+        self.forceClose();
+        return;
+      }
+
+      // do not emit events if the stream is paused
+      if (self.paused) {
+        buffer = data;
+        return;
+      }
+
+      // do not emit events anymore after we declared the stream unreadable
+      if (!self.readable) {
+        return;
+      }
+
+      self.emit('data', data);
+      read();
+    });
+  }
+
+  fs.open(this.path, this.flags, this.mode, function(err, fd) {
+    if (err) {
+      self.emit('error', err);
+      self.readable = false;
+      return;
+    }
+
+    self.fd = fd;
+    self.emit('open', fd);
+    read();
+  });
+
+  this.forceClose = function() {
+    this.readable = false;
+    fs.close(this.fd, function(err) {
+      if (err) {
+        self.emit('error', err);
+        return;
+      }
+
+      self.emit('close');
+    });
+  };
+
+  this.pause = function() {
+    this.paused = true;
+  };
+
+  this.resume = function() {
+    this.paused = false;
+
+    if (buffer !== null) {
+      self.emit('data', buffer);
+      buffer = null;
+    }
+
+    read();
+  };
+};
+sys.inherits(FileReadStream, events.EventEmitter);
+
+exports.createWriteStream = function(path, options) {
+  return new FileWriteStream(path, options);
+};
+
+var FileWriteStream = exports.FileWriteStream = function(path, options) {
+  events.EventEmitter.call(this);
+
+  this.path = path;
+  this.fd = null;
+  this.writeable = true;
+
+  this.flags = 'w';
+  this.encoding = 'binary';
+  this.mode = 0666;
+
+  process.mixin(this, options || {});
+
+  var
+    self = this,
+    queue = [],
+    busy = false;
+
+  queue.push([fs.open, this.path, this.flags, this.mode]);
+
+  function flush() {
+    if (busy) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    var args = queue.shift();
+    if (!args) {
+      return self.emit('drain');
+    }
+
+    busy = true;
+
+    var method = args.shift();
+
+    args.push(function(err) {
+      busy = false;
+
+      if (err) {
+        self.writeable = false;
+        self.emit('error', err);
+        return;
+      }
+
+      // save reference for file pointer
+      if (method === fs.open) {
+        self.fd = arguments[1];
+        self.emit('open', self.fd);
+      }
+
+      // stop flushing after close
+      if (method === fs.close) {
+        self.emit('close');
+        return;
+      }
+
+      flush();
+    });
+
+    // Inject the file pointer
+    if (method !== fs.open) {
+      args.unshift(self.fd);
+    }
+
+    method.apply(null, args);
+  };
+
+  this.write = function(data) {
+    if (!this.writeable) {
+      throw new Error('stream not writeable');
+    }
+
+    queue.push([fs.write, data, undefined, this.encoding]);
+    flush();
+    return false;
+  };
+
+  this.close = function() {
+    this.writeable = false;
+    queue.push([fs.close,]);
+    flush();
+  };
+
+  this.forceClose = function() {
+    this.writeable = false;
+    fs.close(self.fd, function(err) {
+      if (err) {
+        self.emit('error', err);
+        return;
+      }
+
+      self.emit('close');
+    });
+  };
+
+  flush();
+};
+sys.inherits(FileWriteStream, events.EventEmitter);
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diff --git a/test/simple/test-file-read-stream.js b/test/simple/test-file-read-stream.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..447629e41b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/simple/test-file-read-stream.js
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+process.mixin(require('../common'));
+
+var
+  fn = path.join(fixturesDir, 'multipart.js'),
+  file = fs.createReadStream(fn),
+
+  callbacks = {
+    open: -1,
+    end: -1,
+    close: -1
+  },
+
+  paused = false,
+
+  fileContent = '';
+
+file
+  .addListener('open', function(fd) {
+    callbacks.open++;
+    assert.equal('number', typeof fd);
+    assert.ok(file.readable);
+  })
+  .addListener('error', function(err) {
+    throw err;
+  })
+  .addListener('data', function(data) {
+    assert.ok(!paused);
+    fileContent += data;
+    
+    paused = true;
+    file.pause();
+    assert.ok(file.paused);
+
+    setTimeout(function() {
+      paused = false;
+      file.resume();
+      assert.ok(!file.paused);
+    }, 10);
+  })
+  .addListener('end', function(chunk) {
+    callbacks.end++;
+  })
+  .addListener('close', function() {
+    callbacks.close++;
+    assert.ok(!file.readable);
+
+    assert.equal(fs.readFileSync(fn), fileContent);
+  });
+
+process.addListener('exit', function() {
+  for (var k in callbacks) {
+    assert.equal(0, callbacks[k], k+' count off by '+callbacks[k]);
+  }
+});
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diff --git a/test/simple/test-file-write-stream.js b/test/simple/test-file-write-stream.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..89059033ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/simple/test-file-write-stream.js
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+process.mixin(require('../common'));
+
+var
+  fn = path.join(fixturesDir, "write.txt"),
+  file = fs.createWriteStream(fn),
+
+  EXPECTED = '0123456789',
+
+  callbacks = {
+    open: -1,
+    drain: -2,
+    close: -1
+  };
+
+file
+  .addListener('open', function(fd) {
+    callbacks.open++;
+    assert.equal('number', typeof fd);
+  })
+  .addListener('error', function(err) {
+    throw err;
+  })
+  .addListener('drain', function() {
+    callbacks.drain++;
+    if (callbacks.drain == -1) {
+      assert.equal(EXPECTED, fs.readFileSync(fn));
+      file.write(EXPECTED);
+    } else if (callbacks.drain == 0) {
+      assert.equal(EXPECTED+EXPECTED, fs.readFileSync(fn));
+      file.close();
+    }
+  })
+  .addListener('close', function() {
+    callbacks.close++;
+    assert.throws(function() {
+      file.write('should not work anymore');
+    });
+
+    fs.unlinkSync(fn);
+  });
+
+for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+  assert.strictEqual(false, file.write(i));
+}
+
+process.addListener('exit', function() {
+  for (var k in callbacks) {
+    assert.equal(0, callbacks[k], k+' count off by '+callbacks[k]);
+  }
+});
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