Corrupt gzipped exports on Solaris 2.6

From: Chuck <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:57:58 -0500
Message-ID: <9t3k1s$669g$1@ID-85580.news.dfncis.de>

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I've recently been getting corrupt gzipped oracle export files on Solaris 2.6. It appears that gzip does not handle files > 2g on Solaris 2.6. Anyone else experience this? Is there a workaround? I've tried apply the 4g-patch.tar from http://www.gzip.org/#faq10, but that doesn't seem to solve the problem either. The patch notes say that the gzipped files created with the unpatched gzip should be ok, but you need this patch to unzip them. I applied the patch and still get corrupted files when I unzip them.

The files were created by piping an Oracle export into gzip like this...

mkfifo expdat.dmp
gzip < expdat.dmp > myfile.dmp.gz &
exp user/password file=expdat.dmp full=y - - --
Chuck Hamilton
Oracle DBA

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