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 ZFS is a combined [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system file system] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux) logical volume manager] designed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems Sun Microsystems]. ZFS can scale to very large file system sizes and supports compression.
-ZFS greatly simplifies the process of increasing a filesystem size as required. The simpliest approach is to add new volumes to your VM and then add them to your ZFS filesystem to grow the size of your file system.
+ZFS greatly simplifies the process of increasing a filesystem size as required. The simpliest approach is to add new volumes to your VM and then add them to your ZFS filesystem to grow the size of your file system. This can be done while the filesystem is live and file IO is occuring on the filesystem.
 =Installing ZFS=