From bd11dfa480c4c20e24b25ff1fc0e5d0eea729032 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Soltwedel <38459088+jo-mueller@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:30:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: do not delay writing metadata

---
 ome_zarr/writer.py | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ome_zarr/writer.py b/ome_zarr/writer.py
index e69f1940..8d73fd27 100644
--- a/ome_zarr/writer.py
+++ b/ome_zarr/writer.py
@@ -774,16 +774,9 @@ def _write_pyramid_to_zarr(
     if coordinate_transformations is not None:
         for dataset, transform in zip(datasets, coordinate_transformations):
             dataset["coordinateTransformations"] = transform
-    if not compute:
-        write_multiscales_metadata_delayed = dask.delayed(write_multiscales_metadata)
-        return delayed + [
-            bind(write_multiscales_metadata_delayed, delayed)(
-                group, datasets, fmt, axes, name, **metadata
-            )
-        ]
-    else:
-        write_multiscales_metadata(group, datasets, fmt, axes, name, **metadata)
-        return delayed
+
+    write_multiscales_metadata(group, datasets, fmt, axes, name, **metadata)
+    return delayed
 
 
 def write_label_metadata(

From 9dd729bc3bb6ab3114d88c949e78bf3c5d7fbdd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "pre-commit-ci[bot]"
 <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:34:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks

for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci
---
 ome_zarr/writer.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ome_zarr/writer.py b/ome_zarr/writer.py
index 8d73fd27..dbadb177 100644
--- a/ome_zarr/writer.py
+++ b/ome_zarr/writer.py
@@ -6,11 +6,9 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, TypeAlias
 
-import dask
 import dask.array as da
 import numpy as np
 import zarr
-from dask.graph_manipulation import bind
 from numcodecs import Blosc
 
 from .axes import Axes