Subject: Re: bug#24910: RE : File size limitation for gzip

From: Mark Adler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 15:07:09 -0800

To be clear, gzip itself imposes no limit on the file size whatsoever. It is infinite. The system it is running on will, of course, impose it's own limits.

> On Nov 9, 2016, at 1:10 PM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> On 11/09/2016 04:11 AM, Raja, Subhashini X wrote:
>> Team ,
>>                 Please let me know the maximum file size that can be compressed using gzip,
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> It depends on your system. The typical limit nowadays is 2**63 - 1, i.e., 9223372036854775807 bytes. Not that we've tested it.
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