https://livesys.se/tags/irods/ Recent content in Irods on Living Systems_ Hugo en-us Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:55:00 +0200 https://livesys.se/posts/irods-rulelang-cheatsheet/ Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:55:00 +0200 https://livesys.se/posts/irods-rulelang-cheatsheet/ <p><p class="image"> <img src="irods-logo.png" alt="" class="align_right" /> </p> <a href="http://irods.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">iRODS</a> , the &ldquo;integrated rule oriented data system&rdquo; is a super cool system for managing datasets consisting of files, from smallish ones, to really large ones counted in petabytes, and possibly spanning multiple continents.</p> <p>There&rsquo;s a lot to be said about iRODS (up for another blog post) but the one most interesting feature, in my opinion, is the <em>rule language</em>, which allows to define custom rules and policies for how data should be handled, totally automatically, depending on a lot of factors. For example &ldquo;if data if untouched for three months, transparently migrate it from fast disk storage to archival tape storage&rdquo;, etc etc.</p>