Interlace Values for Stripes

An interlace is the size, in Kbytes, Mbytes, or blocks, of the logical data segments on a stripe. Depending on the application, different interlace values can increase performance for your configuration. The performance increase comes from having several disk arms doing I/O. When the I/O request is larger than the interlace size, you might get better performance.

RAID 5 volumes also use an interlace value. See Overview of RAID 5 Volumes for more information.

When you create a stripe, you can set the interlace value or use the Solaris Volume Manager default interlace value of 16 Kbytes. Once you have created the stripe, you cannot change the interlace value. However, you could back up the data on it, delete the stripe, create a new stripe with a new interlace value, and then restore the data.