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Unlike traditional Linux filesystems, ZFS filesystems will allocate storage on-demand from the underlying storage pool. Thus, we can set the "size" of a ZFS volume, but this space only actually allocated when files are stored on the filesystem. In contrast, traditional Linux filesystems like ext4 and xfs must be assigned underlying block storage in advance.