A test suggested by someone on the Oracle mailing list indicates that the filesystem does indeed support large files >2GB. The test was dd if=/dev/zero of=/some/path/to/big/file bs=1M count=2500 which created a 2.6GB file with no problem. Therefore the problem must be as you suggest, that gunzip can't handle this file. I'll have to check the gunzip version on the other machine to see if it is different and do a reality check. Thanks, -ronc On Friday 28 June 2002 07:26, Kris Thielemans wrote:

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When i use gunzip file.gz, I eventually get the error File too large.

don't know, but this sounds like gunzip has a limit on file size in its code (even if the filesystem doesn't). You can easily imagine it using unsigned ints, which on your SuSE system would be 32 bit, too small for a 2.5 GB file.

That's maybe not true as you claim that it works on one kernel version and not on another. Unless of course you have a different version of gzip on both machines. (You could have some fun copying executables around and see if they still work).

Maybe a gzip mailing list could help?

Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans <at> ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom

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