[ILUG] Gzip problem

[John McCormac]

"John P . Looney" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks - it was beginning to do my head in here. :-) I was about to go
and delve into the source of gzip. Actually it might be a good thing to
include a splitting option in gzip that would allow a single large file
to be broken into two smaller ones. The file in question here is the com
TLD zone file so it is only text.

Regards...jmcc
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