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Re: [Bug-tar] wrong filesize in tgz file reported by gzip
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] wrong filesize in tgz file reported by gzip |
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Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:56:04 -0700 |
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Guido Krein <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm using tar to create a .tgz and it seems that when the file
> is bigger than 2GB "gzip -l" reports the wrong uncompressed filesize
> and also a wrong compression ratio.
This is a problem with gzip, not tar. Unfortunately the gzip format,
which is standardized by Internet RFC 1952
<ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1952.txt>, stores the uncompressed
size modulo 2**32.