diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/blob_io.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/blob_io.rs
index 791eefebe9..a7fcea97af 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/blob_io.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/blob_io.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ use bytes::{BufMut, BytesMut};
 use pageserver_api::models::ImageCompressionAlgorithm;
 use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
 use tokio_epoll_uring::{BoundedBuf, IoBuf, Slice};
-use tracing::warn;
 
 use crate::context::RequestContext;
 use crate::page_cache::PAGE_SZ;
@@ -73,22 +72,14 @@ impl<'a> BlockCursor<'a> {
                 len_buf.copy_from_slice(&buf[off..off + 4]);
                 off += 4;
             }
-            let bit_mask = if self.read_compressed {
-                !LEN_COMPRESSION_BIT_MASK
-            } else {
-                0x7f
-            };
-            len_buf[0] &= bit_mask;
+            len_buf[0] &= !LEN_COMPRESSION_BIT_MASK;
             u32::from_be_bytes(len_buf) as usize
         };
         let compression_bits = first_len_byte & LEN_COMPRESSION_BIT_MASK;
 
         let mut tmp_buf = Vec::new();
         let buf_to_write;
-        let compression = if compression_bits <= BYTE_UNCOMPRESSED || !self.read_compressed {
-            if compression_bits > BYTE_UNCOMPRESSED {
-                warn!("reading key above future limit ({len} bytes)");
-            }
+        let compression = if compression_bits <= BYTE_UNCOMPRESSED {
             buf_to_write = dstbuf;
             None
         } else if compression_bits == BYTE_ZSTD {
@@ -331,6 +322,7 @@ impl<const BUFFERED: bool> BlobWriter<BUFFERED> {
                         if compressed.len() < len {
                             let compressed_len = compressed.len();
                             compressed_buf = Some(compressed);
+
                             (BYTE_ZSTD, compressed_len, slice.into_inner())
                         } else {
                             (BYTE_UNCOMPRESSED, len, slice.into_inner())
diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs
index 601b095155..2a60c248e0 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/block_io.rs
@@ -149,24 +149,19 @@ impl<'a> BlockReaderRef<'a> {
 /// ```
 ///
 pub struct BlockCursor<'a> {
-    pub(super) read_compressed: bool,
     reader: BlockReaderRef<'a>,
 }
 
 impl<'a> BlockCursor<'a> {
     pub(crate) fn new(reader: BlockReaderRef<'a>) -> Self {
-        Self::new_with_compression(reader, false)
+        Self::new_with_compression(reader, true)
     }
-    pub(crate) fn new_with_compression(reader: BlockReaderRef<'a>, read_compressed: bool) -> Self {
-        BlockCursor {
-            read_compressed,
-            reader,
-        }
+    pub(crate) fn new_with_compression(reader: BlockReaderRef<'a>, _read_compressed: bool) -> Self {
+        BlockCursor { reader }
     }
     // Needed by cli
     pub fn new_fileblockreader(reader: &'a FileBlockReader) -> Self {
         BlockCursor {
-            read_compressed: false,
             reader: BlockReaderRef::FileBlockReader(reader),
         }
     }
@@ -196,17 +191,11 @@ pub struct FileBlockReader<'a> {
 
     /// Unique ID of this file, used as key in the page cache.
     file_id: page_cache::FileId,
-
-    compressed_reads: bool,
 }
 
 impl<'a> FileBlockReader<'a> {
     pub fn new(file: &'a VirtualFile, file_id: FileId) -> Self {
-        FileBlockReader {
-            file_id,
-            file,
-            compressed_reads: true,
-        }
+        FileBlockReader { file_id, file }
     }
 
     /// Read a page from the underlying file into given buffer.
@@ -253,10 +242,7 @@ impl<'a> FileBlockReader<'a> {
 
 impl BlockReader for FileBlockReader<'_> {
     fn block_cursor(&self) -> BlockCursor<'_> {
-        BlockCursor::new_with_compression(
-            BlockReaderRef::FileBlockReader(self),
-            self.compressed_reads,
-        )
+        BlockCursor::new_with_compression(BlockReaderRef::FileBlockReader(self), true)
     }
 }