More corruption [Re: Problems with ncftp]

[Frank McIngvale]

Hm, it's apparently not just a problem with ncftp.
The following also causes file corruption:

$ bzip2 -9k bigfile
$ bzip2 -dc bigfile.bz2 | bzip2 -9 > out.bz2

bigfile     = 21,301,412 bytes
bigfile.bz2 =  3,338,162 bytes
out.bz2     =  3,351,827 bytes (!!!)

$ bzip2 -t out.bz2

  out.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data

Now, since bigfile.bz2 is okay, it's not a problem
with bzip2 or any text/binary issues with the
filesystem, right? Something must be going wrong
during the pipeline in the second step.

As an additional test, I tried this with a file
of size 387,259 bytes, and everything was OK, so
there appears to be some size threshold where this
error occurs.

Again, this is B20.1, egcs-1.1.1, tcsh 6.08.

frank



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