After a clone is created it is an exact copy of the state the dataset was in when the snapshot was taken. The clone can now be changed independently from its originating dataset. The only connection between the two is the snapshot.
<acronym>ZFS
</acronym> records this connection in the property
<literal>origin
</literal>. Once the dependency between the snapshot and the clone has been removed by promoting the clone using
<command>zfs promote
</command>, the
<literal>origin
</literal> of the clone is removed as it is now an independent dataset. This example demonstrates it: