Github user enixon commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/333
We contemplated doing an fsync for every snapshot and decided against.
You're taking a guaranteed io spike each time. That's fine when you're just
syncing with the quorum but during normal operation, it seems best to keep
snapshot taking a lighter weight operation.
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