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SP(4)			    BSD Programmer's Manual			 SP(4)

NAME
     sp - splice - pseudo-driver providing striping or concatenation

SYNOPSIS
     pseudo-device sp count

DESCRIPTION
     The sp driver splices together multiple disk partitions into a single sp
     disk unit. This unit behaves much like a physical disk. Configuration in-
     formation is passed to the sp driver by splice(8) utility. Once config-
     ured the sp disk can be accessed through /dev/rsp0a, /dev/rsp1a, etc and
     /dev/sp0a, /dev/sp1a, etc without partitioning the newly created splice
     disk. The disks created by the sp driver can be carved up into partitions
     with disksetup(8).

FILES
     /dev/sp*[a-h]   block splice devices
     /dev/rsp*[a-h]  raw splice devices
     /dev/splice     device used by splice(1) to configure splice units

SEE ALSO
     disksetup(8),  newfs(8),  splice(8)

BUGS
     If disksetup(8) is not used to label the disk an error will be reported
     when newfs(8) is used to create a file system on the disk. This error is
     benign.

     When using Disksetup(8) to partition/label a sp disk disksetup(8) will
     complain that it can not determine the type of disk.  For the time being
     tell disksetup(8) that the disk is type SCSI when asked. When given the
     choice of how to determine geometry choose "Internal label used by ker-
     nel".

BSDI BSD/OS		       February 28, 1996			     1

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