Thanks for all your responses - a little more on my environment.

I am running Solaris 9 

5.9 Generic_118558-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440 Solaris

How can I tell what release number I am on?  

Also I am connecting to a Clariion CX700, and using powerpath for path 
management.  I don't see SVM being supported with PowerPath (please tell 
me if I am wrong here).  

I have 4 LTO-G2 Tape drives that I have configured 2 drives for staging 
and 2 for cloning.  If I created the single volume 4.8TB volume and then 
had two subdirectories under that could I utilize the two tape drives for 
staging?

It would look something like this. 

/dev/vx/dsk/DBODG/adv_file            <- Volume

/adv_file           <- Mount Point
/adv_file/d01/      <- Sub Disk 1
/adv_file/d02/      <- Sub Disk 2

This way they will share the disk pool and still be able to stage 
simultaneously - yes? 

                      
I have a Veritas license that I transfered over to this machine so it 
isn't costing me anything more to put veritas on here.  I don't want to be 
the first to jump on ZFS - though I am absolutely watching this.  

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