striping -- Creating a single logical device (volume) by transparently distributing logical data segments across slices. The logical data segments are called stripes.
Striping is sometimes called interlacing because the logical data segments are distributed by interleaving them across slices.
Striping is generally used to improve performance, enabling multiple controllers to access data at the same time.
Compare striping with RAID 0 concatenation, where data is mapped sequentially on slices.