diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libeatmydata/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libeatmydata/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..48a0423653d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libeatmydata/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libeatmydata-65";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1hfmd24ps5661zbbw1qqgqs6hcwx6ll2fxz2j4cfvkmf0kzw25la";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/;
+    license = "GPLv3+";
+    description = "Small LD_PRELOAD library to disable fsync and friends";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 651589f29a9b..1b20cb17856f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4204,6 +4204,8 @@ let
 
   libdwarf = callPackage ../development/libraries/libdwarf { };
 
+  libeatmydata = callPackage ../development/libraries/libeatmydata { };
+
   libebml = callPackage ../development/libraries/libebml { };
 
   libedit = callPackage ../development/libraries/libedit { };