Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:45:18 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010313134412.040e25e0@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010313104513.A85546@northernbrewer.com> References: <dd7sat4ke5rqbbc78f3h7ofmj0mguom82n@4ax.com> <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com> <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312223210.A83134@northernbrewer.com> <SEN.984465737.22594891@news.sentex.net> <dd7sat4ke5rqbbc78f3h7ofmj0mguom82n@4ax.com>
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At 10:45 AM 3/13/01 -0600, Christopher Farley wrote:
>Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) wrote:
>
> > On 13 Mar 2001 01:42:17 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:
> >
> > Does
> > which gzip
> > which gunzip
> > give the same hard linked files ?
>
>Yes.
>
> > This is a 3.6G file
> >
> > b2# md5 dump-c-u2 ;gzip -2 dump-c-u2 ;gzip -d dump-c-u2.gz ; md5 dump-c-u2
> > MD5 (dump-c-u2) = 8cde4cf999407ab959b1355bd62bb94d
> > MD5 (dump-c-u2) = 8cde4cf999407ab959b1355bd62bb94d
> > b2#
>
>On *very* large files (4GB), I can not even get the files to
>finish decompressing before gunzip returns 'invalid compressed
>data--format violated'
What if you create a big file, do an md5 checksum, copy it to another
location, and compare the md5 ?
---Mike
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