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update zfs-send.8 to clarify -c limitations
Add explanation to zfs-send.8 to clarify that if sending with -c a user will not have their data recompressed on the recv side when specifying -o compress=value
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man/man8/zfs-send.8

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then the data will be decompressed before sending so it can be split into
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smaller block sizes. Streams sent with
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.Fl c
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cannot have their compression overwritten on the receiver using
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.Fl o compress=.
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The compression property will be set on the receiver but the compression used
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will be the one that was set on the sender.
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will not have their data recompressed on the receiver side using
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.Fl o compress=value.
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The data will stay compressed as it was from the sender. The new compression
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property will be set for future data.
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.It Fl w, -raw
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For encrypted datasets, send data exactly as it exists on disk. This allows
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backups to be taken even if encryption keys are not currently loaded. The

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