On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:38:29PM +0000, John McCormac mentioned:
> Is there some upper limit in Gzip that prevents it from uncompressing
> files bigger than 2G ? I've been trying to uncompress (gzip -d
> filename>outfile) a large file for the last day or two and it seems to
> barf when it gets to the 2G mark. As far as I know the -d switch
> decompresses to stdout and the problem seems to be there.
Nah, that's a Linux problem. On Intel, it doesn't support files greater
than 2GB....
There are patches, which do give a big performance hit for other stuff,
which will let you use big files.
Installing the RedHat "Enterprise" kernel will enable this.
Kate
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