compress - segmentation fault

[farhsyed]

Hi,

I am facing compress problem on Linux 2.1 AS, as I get a message 'segmentation fault' on a file. The filesize is 2405498880 bytes. I moved this file on AIX machine, compress worked fine. any suggestion.

Thanks

farhsyed

 

[thedaver]

is gzip or bzip2 an option?

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[ericbrunson]

Isn't there a 2GB file size limit in the linux kernel unless it's compiled specially to handle larger?

 

[thedaver]

Why yes, you're right Eric. I thought of that but didn't see the extra decimal place worth of enumeration.

Farhysed, you cannot operate on a file that large without making the accomodation Ericbrunson mentions.

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