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No. ZFS implements normal writes to the disk as snapshots (just unnamed ones), so in fact you can only write to disk through creation of a snapshot or by writing to "Intent Log" which is short-term log of data that is going into next snapshot - but which was synced before the snapshot was done, and as such it's secured in case of power failure.


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