The problem with your WAV files is not that they contain sparse blocks. If they did, they would not sound good, because you would hear every blank block. And since they are listed as 20 times the original size, you would hear a lot of "silence", and each of them would play for several hours. ;) But as you've mentioned, two arbitrary "1GB songs" still sound good.
Just out of curiousity, what do you get when you gzip such a huge file, transfer it to another machine and gunzip it?
Sorry to take so long to respond.
Didn't have another Linux machine at hand, so I gzipped it (took all of six seconds) and transferred the compressed file (down from 1.18GB to an expected 53MB) to another drive. Gunzipping the file resulted again in a 1.18GB file.
Color me baffled.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
