Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:37:43 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Message-ID: <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com>; from "Christopher Farley" on Mon Mar 12 19:53:32 GMT 2001 References: <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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