diff --git a/man/man8/zfs-receive.8 b/man/man8/zfs-receive.8
index ed5cbbdf0..982e3b961 100644
--- a/man/man8/zfs-receive.8
+++ b/man/man8/zfs-receive.8
@@ -261,6 +261,16 @@ causes the property to be inherited by all descendant datasets, as through
 was run on any descendant datasets that have this property set on the
 sending system.
 .Pp
+If the send stream was sent with 
+.Fl c
+then overriding the 
+.Sy compression 
+property will have no affect on received data but the  
+.Sy compression
+property will be set. To have the data recompressed on receive remove the 
+.Fl c 
+flag from the send stream.  
+.Pp
 Any editable property can be set at receive time. Set-once properties bound
 to the received data, such as
 .Sy normalization
diff --git a/man/man8/zfs-send.8 b/man/man8/zfs-send.8
index 1a241a52d..91c1484c7 100644
--- a/man/man8/zfs-send.8
+++ b/man/man8/zfs-send.8
@@ -189,7 +189,12 @@ feature is enabled on the sending system but the
 option is not supplied in conjunction with
 .Fl c ,
 then the data will be decompressed before sending so it can be split into
-smaller block sizes.
+smaller block sizes. Streams sent with 
+.Fl c
+will not have their data recompressed on the receiver side using
+.Fl o compress=value.
+The data will stay compressed as it was from the sender. The new compression
+property will be set for future data. 
 .It Fl w, -raw
 For encrypted datasets, send data exactly as it exists on disk. This allows
 backups to be taken even if encryption keys are not currently loaded. The