Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:34:41 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Message-ID: <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com>; from "Christopher Farley" on Mon Mar 12 16:58:14 GMT 2001 References: <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com>
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In the last episode (Mar 12), Christopher Farley said: > When I try to gzip a large (4 GB) file, it creates the gzip file > without any problem. However, gunzip complains of "CRC errors" during > the decompression. > > I've heard this is because gzip's internal headers only store a > 32-bit filesize, and hence has a 2 GB limit. If you really mean you're getting "invalid compressed data--length mismatch", you can safely ignore it. It's been fixed in the latest gzip source, I believe. I've been gzipping files over 4gb for quite a while on my 4.2 boxes with no problems. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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