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1953001043 I_kwDOAMm_X850aG5T 8343 Add `metadata_only` param to `.to_zarr`? 5635139 open 0     17 2023-10-19T20:25:11Z 2023-11-15T05:22:12Z   MEMBER      

Is your feature request related to a problem?

A leaf from https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/8245, which has a bullet:

compute=False is arguably a less-than-obvious kwarg meaning "write metadata". Maybe this should be a method, maybe it's a candidate for renaming? Or maybe make_template can be an abstraction over it

I've also noticed that for large arrays, running compute=False can take several minutes, despite the indexes being very small. I think this is because it's building a dask task graph — which is then discarded, since the array is written from different machines with the region pattern.

Describe the solution you'd like

Would introducing a metadata_only parameter to to_zarr help here: - Better name - No dask graph

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

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