From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 20:32:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926D137B71C for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:32:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8247D383071; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:32:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:32:12 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Message-ID: <20010312223210.A83134@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com> <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:37:43PM -0600 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson (dnelson@emsphone.com) wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 12), Christopher Farley said: > > Dan Nelson (dnelson@emsphone.com) wrote: > > > 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. > > > > What I actually mean is > > gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > > > > Decompression ceases at this point. > > > > I get a similar failure with bunzip2: > > bunzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing. > > Input file = fs-dump.gz2, output file = fs-dump > > That's definitely a problem. What version of FreeBSD are you seeing > this on? > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #2: Wed Mar 7 00:17:19 CST 2001 I've been able to repeatedly duplicate this on this machine; I haven't yet tried on earlier versions of STABLE. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message