diff --git a/raft/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/snapshot/FileRawSnapshotWriter.java b/raft/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/snapshot/FileRawSnapshotWriter.java
index 535c176c7280c..4dc1fe7da03d0 100644
--- a/raft/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/snapshot/FileRawSnapshotWriter.java
+++ b/raft/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/snapshot/FileRawSnapshotWriter.java
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ public void freeze() {
             checkIfFrozen("Freeze");
 
             frozenSize = channel.size();
+            // force the channel to write to the file system before closing, to make sure that the file has the data
+            // on disk before performing the atomic file move
+            channel.force(true);
             channel.close();
 
             if (!tempSnapshotPath.toFile().setReadOnly()) {