On 03/26/2010 01:55 PM, Donald Zoch wrote: > > Hi > > We have found that gzip --list does not list correct uncompressed size for > large files. Our test file was approximately 8GB in size before gzipping > and gzip --list on the gzipped file does not show the correct size
Not a bug, but an inherent limitation in the file format used by gzip. There is no way to accurately record sizes larger than 2GB short of inventing a new file format, but then it would no longer be compatible with existing gzip. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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