Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:42:02 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Message-ID: <20010313004200.A83508@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <20010312223210.A83134@northernbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:32:12PM -0600 References: <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com> <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312223210.A83134@northernbrewer.com>
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On my FreeBSD 4.3-BETA (Wed Mar 7) machine, I can reproduce this problem repeatedly. I can not reproduce this problem on my my FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE (Fri Feb 23) machine. ######################################################################### /tmp> dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1000000 count=2000 | gzip > /tmp/largefile.gz /tmp> cat largefile.gz | gunzip > test unzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error /tmp> cat largefile.gz | gunzip | diff test - Binary files test and - differ /tmp> ls -laF -rw-r--r-- 1 chris wheel 2000323844 Mar 12 23:33 largefile.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 chris wheel 2000000000 Mar 12 23:40 test ######################################################################### The problematic machine can gunzip smaller files without any problem, and I have not as yet determined how big a file needs to be before there is a problem. As stated before, this is a problem with both gzip/gunzip and bzip2/bunzip2. Any ideas? I'm going to re-build the system tonight from source. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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