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Re: problem with gzip --list
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Eric Blake |
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Re: problem with gzip --list |
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Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:38:52 -0600 |
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On 03/26/2010 01:55 PM, Donald Zoch wrote:
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> Hi
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> 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.
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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