24 Deferred Updates

Each software upgrade might contain new firmware or updates to external resources. If an update is not backward compatible, it is presented as a "deferred update" and is not automatically applied. To understand the implications of applying deferred updates, see Understanding Deferred Updates.

Note:

Replication failures can occur if the target appliance does not support a feature used by the project or share being replicated. See the "Incompatible Target" failure in section Replication Failures in Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Administration Guide, Release OS8.8.x.

To apply deferred updates, use one of the following tasks:

For a description of a deferred update, select a deferred update from the following table.

Table 24-1 Deferred Updates

Feature Version Introduced

Passthrough x Deferred Update

2009.Q2.0.0

User Quotas Deferred Update

2009.Q3.0.0

COMSTAR Deferred Update

2009.Q3.0.0

Triple Parity RAID Deferred Update

2009.Q3.0.0

Dedup Deferred Update

2010.Q1.0.0

Replication Deferred Update

2010.Q1.0.0

Received Properties Deferred Update

2010.Q1.0.0

Slim ZIL Deferred Update

2010.Q3.1.0

Snapshot Deletion Deferred Update

2010.Q3.1.0

Recursize Snapshots Deferred Update

2010.Q3.1.0

Multi Replace Deferred Update

2010.Q3.1.0

RAIDZ Mirror Deferred Update

2011.1.0.0

Optional Child Dir Deferred Update

2011.1.0.0

Multiple Initiator Groups per LUN Deferred Update

2011.1.8.0

Large Block Sizes Deferred Update

2013.1.1.0

Sequential Resilvering Deferred Update

2013.1.2.0

NDMP-zfs Replica Backup Deferred Update

2013.1.4.0

ACL Passthrough with Mode Preservation Deferred Update

OS8.6.0

LZ4 Data Compression Deferred Update

OS8.7.0

Fast Copy with Encryption Deferred Update

OS8.7.0

Data Deduplication v2 Deferred Update

OS8.7.0

Asynchronous Dataset Deletion Deferred Update

OS8.7.0

RAID Space Efficiency Improvements Deferred Update

OS8.7.0

Support for Windows Compatible Automated Snapshot Names

OS8.7.3

Enable Pool Encryption Deferred Update

OS8.8.0

Deadlist Performance Deferred Update

OS8.8.6

Compact File Metadata for Encryption with Enhanced Replication Support Deferred Update

OS8.8.6

Reserved Pool Version Deferred Update

OS8.8.6

Improve LUN Attach/Detach Performance Deferred Update

OS8.8.22

Support for Snapshot Retention Deferred Update

OS8.8.39

File Retention Deferred Update

OS8.8.45

Unicode Versioning Deferred Update

OS8.8.51

Raw Crypto Replication Deferred Update

OS8.8.57

File Retention on Expiry Deferred Update

OS8.8.63