To me it looks like this is an integer overflow on the uncompressed
filesize
druid@#### ~ gzip -l dump.sql.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
2850064545 1792003237 -59.0% dump.sql
druid@#### ~ gzip --version
gzip 1.4
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Copyright (C) 1993 Jean-loup Gailly.
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Written by Jean-loup Gailly.
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negative compression ratio if list a big gzip file
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