On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:37:47AM +1000, David Luyer wrote:
> Package: gzip
> Version: 1.3.5-11
>
> It looks like gzip is storing the incorrect filesize for large
> files (probably only 32bits of it). Here's a roughly 40GiB file
> (or at least a tar file of 39GiB of files) compressed to roughly 2.6GiB.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/acct-archive-log# gzip -l acct-log-to-20050227.tar.gz
> compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
> 2605966699 61474816 -4139.1%
> acct-log-to-20050227.tar
>
> If the file size is too large to store in the bits available maybe it
> should be stored as '-1' so gzip -l will be consistent with other
> formats it doesn't know the uncompressed size of?
>
This is a known and documented problem. Perhaps rather than closing it
this time, it should be marked wontfix.
Drew Daniels
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