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Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks. Automated Fixity Checker for Disparate Hardware . Jacob Farmer, CTO Cambridge Computer. Our Project – Defining Best Practices for File Management. Inspiration for our project comes from SRB/IRODS Bring parts of the SRB/IRODS vision to reality

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Lightning Talks

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  1. Lightning Talks Automated Fixity Checker for Disparate Hardware Jacob Farmer, CTO Cambridge Computer

  2. Our Project – Defining Best Practices for File Management • Inspiration for our project comes from SRB/IRODS • Bring parts of the SRB/IRODS vision to reality • Define a general purpose feature set • Intuitive user interface • Simplified API • Inspiration also comes from numerous home grown solutions in our client base. • The paradigm: • Stat() your file systems • Make database records for each file and/or directory • Relate metadata to the file and directory records • Report and/or take action

  3. In-Band and Out-of-Band

  4. Building a Fixity Checker Into Starfish • Out of the box, Starfish has most of the key components of a fixity checker • Hash calculations and comparisons are fundamental to the system: deduplication, integrity checking, versioning, content addressing • Walking file systems and object stores is fundamental. • Super fast, parallelized crawler and file processor • Starfish holds any kind of metadata • Position of files on tape • Logging of our activity • Starfish takes metadata from other systems through API • If another system does a fixity check, we can store the history and results • Starfish rules engine works on a schedule and uses metadata as a trigger for activity • We query the metadata catalog and then “do stuff” • The “stuff” could be a hash compare

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