Hi,

> Am 09.11.2022 um 21:15 schrieb Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@leidinger.net>:
> Quoting "Patrick M. Hausen" <p...@hausen.com> (from Wed, 9 Nov 2022 21:02:52 
> +0100):
>> Yet, I made it a habit to whenever I see this message:
>> 
>> -----------
>> status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can
>>      still be used, but some features are unavailable.
>> action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
>>      the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
>>      the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
>> -----------
>> 
>> to do a "zpool upgrade" after some time of burn in followed by an update of 
>> the
>> boot loader.
>> 
>> I desire to know if that is in fact dangerous.
> 
> Ugh. This changed. It is indeed dangerous now. I just tested it with a 
> non-root pool which didn't had all flags enabled. "zpool upgrade <pool>" will 
> now enable all features.

I know. But until now I assumed that features *enabled* but not *used* were not 
impeding booting.
And that for all others the boot loader was supposed to keep track.

Kind regards,
Patrick

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