On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Toralf Lund wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Also, the gzip here is 1.3.3, dated in 2002.  There may have been fixes to
> > it, probably in the >2GB file sizes areas.
> >  
> Ahem. If >2GB data is or has been a problem, then I'm definitely doomed, since
> Amanda dumps tend to get a lot larger than that (on our systems, and I would
> assume, also in general.)

If gzip has problems in the > 2 GiB file size areas, usually it's related to
displaying statistics (try `gzip -l' on a large compressed file).

I never heard of problems with the actual compression, which is stream based
and thus shouldn't suffer from such limitations.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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