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Invisible zfs snapshot directory

I found out today something I am sure to forget.

In every zfs dataset there is an invisible directory (by invisible, I mean that it does NOT show up with ls -a) name .zfs. In side this directory are two subdirectories, shares and snapshots.

The snapshots subdirectory is a perfectly serviceable read-only access to all the snapshots. Viz:

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