Re: Corrupt gzipped exports on Solaris 2.6

From: Chuck <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:12:54 -0500
Message-ID: <9tbb11$1fvse$1@ID-85580.news.dfncis.de>

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I'm already doing something like that. I'm piping (using a named pipe) a stream into gzip. It completes with no errors or warnings but when tou try to extract it you get garbage. I've tried the "cat" method to extract too but still get the same garbage.

Chuck

"Frank" <frank.brauer_at_N_O__S_P_A_M.talknet.de> wrote in message news:vxpJ7.6526$BG6.782192653_at_news.tli.de...
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> As far as I know gzip on Solaris 2.6 can not handle files >2GB. You
> may try to do something similar to
> tar cf - . | gzip -c >output.tar.gz
> and
> cat out.tar.gz | gzip -dc - | tar xf -
> to revert it. make sure your filesystem is able to handle files
> >2GB.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Frank
>

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