When discussing inodes and data blocks, I know Solaris creates these data blocks with a total size of 8192b, divided into eight 1024b "fragments." It stores data in "contiguous" fragments and solaris doesn't allow a file to use portions of two different fragments. If the file size permits, then the file is stored in the "n" number of fragments within a single data block.

My question is this: if I have a file that is larger than 8K, which means it will need more than one data block, does solaris store the data blocks in a coniguous fashion? i.e., datablock1, datablock2, datablock3, etc. my instincts tell me it has to, otherwise the file becomes "fragmented." any help is appreciated.