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diff --git a/doc/imagex-apply.1.in b/doc/imagex-apply.1.in
index 66697f73..1166a6a6 100644
--- a/doc/imagex-apply.1.in
+++ b/doc/imagex-apply.1.in
@@ -70,11 +70,13 @@ Short (DOS) names for files.
 File creation timestamps.
 .PP
 Notes: Unsupported data and metadata is simply not extracted, but
-\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR always warns you when the contents of the WIM image
-can't be exactly represented when extracted.  Last access and last modification
-timestamps are specified to 100 nanosecond granularity in the WIM file, but will
-only be extracted to the highest precision supported by the underlying operating
-system, C library, and filesystem.
+\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR will attempt to warn you when the contents of the WIM
+image can't be exactly represented when extracted.  Last access and last
+modification timestamps are specified to 100 nanosecond granularity in the WIM
+file, but will only be extracted to the highest precision supported by the
+underlying operating system, C library, and filesystem.  Compressed files will
+be extracted as uncompressed, while encrypted files will not be extracted at
+all.
 .SH NTFS VOLUME EXTRACTION (UNIX)
 This section documents how \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ apply\fR extracts a WIM image
 directly to an NTFS volume image on UNIX-like systems.  See \fBDIRECTORY EXTRACTION
@@ -118,11 +120,16 @@ DOS/Windows file attribute flags.
 All names of all files, including names in the Win32 namespace, DOS namespace,
 Win32+DOS namespace, and POSIX namespace.  This includes hard links.
 .PP
-Currently, the only known limitation (in terms of exactly extracting all data
-and metadata) is that the extraction of encrypted files is not expected to work
-properly.
+However, there are also several known limitations of the NTFS volume extraction
+mode:
+.IP \[bu] 4
+Encrypted files will not be extracted.
+.IP \[bu]
+Although sparse file attributes will be applied, the full data will be extracted
+to each sparse file, so extracted "sparse" files may not actually contain any
+sparse regions.
 .PP
-Since all (or almost all) information from the WIM image is restored in this
+Regardless, since almost all information from the WIM image is restored in this
 mode, it is possible to restore an image of an actual Windows installation using
 \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR on UNIX-like systems in addition to with
 \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR on Windows.  In the examples at the end of this manual
@@ -209,16 +216,16 @@ Hard links, if supported by the filesystem.
 .PP
 Additional notes about extracting files on Windows:
 .IP \[bu] 4
-\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR will always issue a warning when it is unable to extract
-the exact metadata and data of the WIM image, for example due to features
-mentioned above not being supported by the target filesystem.
+\fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR will issue a warning when it is unable to extract the
+exact metadata and data of the WIM image, for example due to features mentioned
+above not being supported by the target filesystem.
 .IP \[bu]
 Since encrypted files (with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYPTED) are not stored in
 plaintext in the WIM image, \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR cannot restore encrypted
-files to filesystems not supporting encryption.  (The current behavior is to
-just extract the encrypted data anyway.)  Furthermore, even if encrypted files
-are restored to a filesystem that supports encryption, they will only be
-decryptable if the decryption key is available.
+files to filesystems not supporting encryption.  Therefore, such files are not
+extracted.  Furthermore, even if encrypted files are restored to a filesystem
+that supports encryption, they will only be decryptable if the decryption key is
+available.
 .IP \[bu]
 Files with names that cannot be represented on Windows will not
 be extracted by default; see \fB--include-invalid-names\fR.
@@ -428,7 +435,7 @@ platform and filesystem-dependent, of the capture and apply functionality of
 \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR):
 .RS
 .PP
-@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ capture src - | @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ apply - 1 dst
+@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ capture src - | @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ apply - dst
 .RE
 .PP
 .SH SEE ALSO