Deferred zfs snapshot

[scott.perkins.1042]

I am trying to better understand how the defer_delete's properties works.

Once you defer the a delete using zfs destroy -d <snapshot>.
It then sets two options; defer_delete and userrefs.

defer_delete is turned "on"
userrefs is set to a number (in my case) "1"

How do you turn off or disable the defer_delete on a snapshot?

I found a reference that discusses using zfs release but that does not seem to work or at least I a not using the correct options.

Please advise.

Thanks ahead of time,
Penguinperk

 

[dlavigne]

It is just a property of the snapshot. Does changing that property to "off" not work?