diff --git a/man/man8/zfs.8 b/man/man8/zfs.8
index 423f711ed9..89541eed98 100644
--- a/man/man8/zfs.8
+++ b/man/man8/zfs.8
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ Before creating a pool with deduplication enabled, ensure that you have planned
 your hardware requirements appropriately and implemented appropriate recovery
 practices, such as regular backups. As an alternative to deduplication
 consider using
-.Sy compression=lz4 ,
+.Sy compression=on ,
 as a less resource-intensive alternative.
 .Ss Native Properties
 Properties are divided into two types, native properties and user-defined