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

[James Gray]

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Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:54:14PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
>> So consequently the only way to write out as you describe is either to
>> hack some funky RAID5-for-ISO9660 or hack a new ISO9660 that writes
>> across multiple volumes as you describe above.
>>
>> Like I said, it would be more of a hacked ISO9660 than a RAID5
>> implementation.
>>
> I know I'm horribly late to this thread but I just couldn't let this go
> - there's no reason why you have to use iso9660 on CD/DVD devices. You
> can have anything like as long as you can get it on there. If you create
> a file, use it as a loop device, format it ext2, write data to it, then
> burn it to disc you'll have an ext2 format CD and it will all work fine.
> 
> I have some old Silicon Graphics CDs here (that might predate iso9660 if
> that's even possible) that are efs format.

Did you read the rest of the thread?  It wasn't about whether or not
ISO9660 was the only option for CD/DVD media (which of course it isn't)
- - it was about creating a RAID5 in a particular fashion...which wont
work with off-the-shelf tools :)

Cheers,

James
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