Upgrading ZFS Storage Pools

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With the zpool upgrade command, you can upgrade ZFS storage pools from a previous Oracle Solaris release.

Before using the command, use the zpool status command to check whether the pools were configured with a ZFS version that is previous to the version currently on the system. Also, consider displaying the features of the current ZFS version on the system by using the –v option as shown below:

# zpool upgrade -v

The list of features would vary depending on the ZFS version number on the system. See ZFS Pool Versions for a complete list.

Use the –a option to upgrade the pools and take advantage of the latest ZFS features.

# zpool upgrade -a

After you upgrade the pools, they are no longer accessible on a system that is running a previous ZFS version.

Example 15 Upgrading ZFS Pools

This example shows the actions to upgrade pools.

# zpool status
  pool: system1
 state: ONLINE
status: The pool is formatted using an older on-disk format.  The pool can
        still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Upgrade the pool using 'zpool upgrade'.  Once this is done, the
        pool will no longer be accessible on older software versions.
 scrub: none requested
config:
        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        system1     ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t0d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
errors: No known data errors

# zpool upgrade -v
This system is currently running ZFS pool version version-number.

The following versions are supported:

VER  DESCRIPTION
---  --------------------------------------------------------
1   Initial ZFS version
2   Ditto blocks (replicated metadata)
3   Hot spares and double parity RAID-Z
4   zpool history
5   Compression using the gzip algorithm
.
.
Additional features

# zpool upgrade -a