Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:11:38 -0400 From: David Banning <david+dated+1178644300.f0cf61@skytracker.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't zip large files 2gb > Message-ID: <20070503171138.GB43512@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070503061957.GA50615@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070501195825.GA10269@skytracker.ca> <20070502093757.GA2835@kobe.laptop> <20070502162657.GA21779@skytracker.ca> <20070502171723.GA1615@kobe.laptop> <20070502180815.GA50145@skytracker.ca> <20070502190950.GA84501@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20070503054842.GA14682@skytracker.ca> <20070503061957.GA50615@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> > > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > root# > > Unless you can demonstrate some other systematic effect (e.g. always > truncated at the same size), it looks like you have some other kind of > failing hardware that is silently corrupting the data during writing > or reading from disk. You are probably right. I am going to upgrade to 6.x and see if that helps - it may not but I have to upgrade one day anyway. It will be interesting to see if the problem follows me. Thanks for your input -
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