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zpool status reports " The pool is formatted using an older on-disk format." when it is really
running the latest supported version (Doc ID 1616362.1)

APPLIES TO:

Solaris Operating System - Version 10 3/05 and later

Information in this document applies to any platform.
Not Applicable to Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

SYMPTOMS

If working with ZFS Storage Appliance please see: Document: 2055037.1 : Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance: ZFS System
Zpool Version - DO NOT UPGRADE

Zpool status complains about the zpool version not being the latest, such as:

# zpool status -v
pool: xxxx
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.

...

...

And zpool upgrade reports something similar to:

# zpool upgrade -v
This system is currently running ZFS pool version 34. <--- Current Version

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
6 bootfs pool property
7 Separate intent log devices
8 Delegated administration
9 refquota and refreservation properties
10 Cache devices
11 Improved scrub performance
12 Snapshot properties
13 snapused property
14 passthrough-x aclinherit

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15 user/group space accounting

16 stmf property support
17 Triple-parity RAID-Z
18 Snapshot user holds
19 Log device removal
20 Compression using zle (zero-length encoding)
21 Deduplication
22 Received properties
23 Slim ZIL
24 System attributes
25 Improved scrub stats
26 Improved snapshot deletion performance
27 Improved snapshot creation performance
28 Multiple vdev replacements
29 RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator
30 Encryption
31 Improved 'zfs list' performance
32 One MB blocksize
33 Improved share support
34 Sharing with inheritance <-- Latest version is same as the current version

For more information on a particular version, including supported releases,

see the ZFS Administration Guide.

CHANGES

N/A or Unknown

CAUSE

N/A or Unknown

SOLUTION

If working with ZFS Storage Appliance please see: Document: 2055037.1 : Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance: ZFS System
Zpool Version - DO NOT UPGRADE

Try to explicitly upgrade to the current version again by using "zpool upgrade -V {version number} {pool name or for all
zpools using '-a'}

So for the above referenced zpool it would be either:

zpool upgrade -V 34 xxxx

or

zpool upgrade -V 34 -a

REFERENCES

NOTE:1359758.1 - ZFS Filesystem and Zpool Version Matrix

NOTE:2055037.1 - Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance: ZFS System Zpool Version - DO NOT UPGRADE
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