Is this an arch issue or is it gzip specific? i too do backups using gzip... but the files so far haven't exceeded the 4gb limit, and so far i've had no problems with extracting the contents of the files.
Would be nice to know if there is a solution for this so i can change my backup scripts/patch gzip to fix it... And i do agree, dont really want to make my backuping slower by using bzip. / Fredrik Eriksson David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Jürgen Hötzel wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:40:15PM -0500, joe henderson wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> Is there a way to turn on gzips "larger file size" bit in the install? >>> >> gzip needs to be patched to use O_LARGEFILE. > > > Has anyone filed a bug for this yet? If not, please let me know and > I'll file one. > > I just tested unzipping a > 4GB tarball and found that gunzip is indeed > barfing on it. > > BTW, bzip2 is NOT a solution here. It's *VERY* much slower than gzip. > > >> Workaround, using >> shell-redirection: >> >> gzip <in.tar >/tmp/out.tar.gz >> >> Jürgen > > Hmmm ... not sure I grok why this is different. Anyone want to hit me > with a cluestick? > > DR > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
