Upgrading ZFS packages (filesystems, tools,etc) without doing an OS upgrade

Hi everyone,
Is there a way to upgrade all ZFS libs, binaries, etc without having to retort on a full-install or os upgrade ?
I'm running Solaris 10u5, I've read that many new features (esp. concerning snapshots) are available on 10u6. I can't put the server offline for much time and can't upgrade it to 10u6+ . I'd only need to upgrade all ZFS-related parts (... live, if possible !).
Is there a way to do this ?
Thanks,
Jeff

If you can find some spare disk space, you might want to look into liveupgrade to minimize your downtime. This might make it possible for you to upgrade. With liveupgrade, you should be able to keep your downtime to something a little bit longer than one or more reboots depending on the current state of your installation.
If you want to upgrade ZFS packages to get some of the newer features, like moving your / file system to ZFS, you probably can't just upgrade ZFS packages to get that functionality. A feature like that involves quite a bit of support outside of the ZFS packages.

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