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What [2] is doing is exposing the raw send stream as a file, not what the contents of the hidden .zfs folder contains.

https://github.com/UNFmontreal/zfs_fuse_snapshot/blob/64b17b...


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hnlmorg10/12/2024

The GP wasn’t suggesting [2] was using the ZFS snapshot folder. It was saying that ZFS natively supports a file system via of snapshots so people should be mindful to use [2] as an example of writing FUSE file systems rather than a practical tool for working with ZFS.