An example would be if you had a raw snapshot on tape. A single file or subset
of files could be restored from it without needing the space to load the full
snapshot into a zpool. This would be handy if you have a zpool with 500GB of
space and 300GB used. If you had a snapshot that was 250GB and wanted to load
it back up to restore a file, you wouldn't have sufficient space.
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