From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 17:28:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D456616A401 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 17:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david+dated+1178644300.f0cf61@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (3s1.com [209.161.205.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A0213C44C for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 17:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david+dated+1178644300.f0cf61@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 3s1.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l43HBeDF046527 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 13:11:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david+dated+1178644300.f0cf61@skytracker.ca) Received: (from david@localhost) by 3s1.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l43HBe9h046526 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 May 2007 13:11:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david+dated+1178644300.f0cf61@skytracker.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: 3s1.com: david set sender to david+dated+1178644300.f0cf61@skytracker.ca using -f Received: by 3s1.com (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1000); Thu, 03 May 2007 13:11:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:11:38 -0400 To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20070503171138.GB43512@skytracker.ca> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070503061957.GA50615@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: David Banning X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/3203/Thu May 3 11:00:30 2007 on 3s1.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=unavailable version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on 3s1.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't zip large files 2gb > X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 17:28:57 -0000 > > > > 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 -