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| -rw-r--r-- | man/man8/zfs-receive.8 | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man8/zfs-send.8 | 3 |
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diff --git a/man/man8/zfs-receive.8 b/man/man8/zfs-receive.8 index 30b509140..a60a5c7bb 100644 --- a/man/man8/zfs-receive.8 +++ b/man/man8/zfs-receive.8 @@ -105,6 +105,18 @@ destroyed by using the .Nm zfs Cm destroy Fl d command. .Pp +Deduplicated send streams can be generated by using the +.Nm zfs Cm send Fl D +command. +\fBThe ability to send and receive deduplicated send streams is deprecated.\fR +In the future, the ability to receive a deduplicated send stream with +.Nm zfs Cm receive +will be removed. +However, in the future, a utility will be provided to convert a +deduplicated send stream to a regular (non-deduplicated) stream. +This future utility will require that the send stream be located in a +seek-able file, rather than provided by a pipe. +.Pp If .Fl o Em property Ns = Ns Ar value or diff --git a/man/man8/zfs-send.8 b/man/man8/zfs-send.8 index 2561cb61c..1deedc214 100644 --- a/man/man8/zfs-send.8 +++ b/man/man8/zfs-send.8 @@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ By default, a full stream is generated. .Bl -tag -width "-D" .It Fl D, -dedup Generate a deduplicated stream. +\fBDeduplicated send is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.\fR +(In the future, the flag will be accepted but a regular, non-deduplicated +stream will be generated.) Blocks which would have been sent multiple times in the send stream will only be sent once. The receiving system must also support this feature to receive a deduplicated |