can't zip large files 2gb >

[David Banning]

> > 
> > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > root#
> 
> Unless you can demonstrate some other systematic effect (e.g. always
> truncated at the same size), it looks like you have some other kind of
> failing hardware that is silently corrupting the data during writing
> or reading from disk.

You are probably right. I am going to upgrade to 6.x and see
if that helps - it may not but I have to upgrade one day anyway.
It will be interesting to see if the problem follows me.

Thanks for your input -