See page 7 of https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt (ISIZE is the
relevant field)
It is an limitation of the gzip file format...
It is also documented in the gzip man page under "BUGS", with a (slow)
workaround...
One way to fix it might be to define an "extra field" with a larger
original file s
To me it looks like this is an integer overflow on the uncompressed
filesize
druid@ ~ gzip -l dump.sql.gz
compresseduncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
2850064545 1792003237 -59.0% dump.sql
druid@ ~ gzip --version
gzip 1.4
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Softw
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gzip (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
negat
