Re: Corrupt gzipped exports on Solaris 2.6

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( gzip < $PIPE ) | split -b $MAXSIZE - $FN. & $ORACLE_HOME/bin/exp userid=$UID file=$PIPE $EXPORT_WHAT >>& $EXPORT_LOG On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:57:58 -0500, "Chuck" <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

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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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