Read-Only RAID-5 on DVD? :-)

[James Gray]

On 3/7/06 10:22 AM, "Harijs Buss" <harijs at info-shelter.net> wrote:

> On Monday 03 July 2006 02:48, James Gray rakstija:
> 
>> So if you loose a disk from the "array" which is read-only...how the hell
>> do you replace and rebuild the dead disk?
> 
> I don't need to.  I need only READ the information from the remaining set.

I can appreciate what you're saying, but how do you propose to /create/ the
RAID-5 in the first place?  Did you read the rest of my post about HOW
ISO9660 actually writes the information out?  If it's not sequential, it
wont work. RAID5 is non-sequential.  Game over.  Get a real backup solution
:)

Cheers,

James