Solaris™ 9 System Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 310-014 and 310-015)

Concatenated Virtual Devices

Unlike the standard Solaris file system, which consists of a single partition (slice), a concatenated virtual file system consists of two or more slices. The slices can be on the same physical disk or on several physical disks. The slices also can be of different sizes.

Concatenation implies that the slices are addressed in a sequential manner. That is, as space is needed, it is allocated from the first slice in the concatenation. Once this space is completely used, space is allocated from the second slice, and so on.

The main advantage of a concatenated virtual device is that it provides means for using slices that might otherwise be too small for use. In addition, concatenation using more than one physical disk ...