[illumos-Discuss] md aka svm aka lvm

[Kyle McDonald]

On 8/29/2010 12:37 PM, Andre van Eyssen wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote:
>
>> How is "disk concatentation" different than:
>>
>>  # zpool create test $PWD/1 $PWD/2
>
> Because ZFS will load balance approximating a stripe in that 
> situation, as opposed to a straight concatenation available with 
> DiskSuite.
>
True that is a difference. But is that bad? When is straight 
concatenation more desirable?

   -Kyle