[Bug-tar] wrong filesize in tgz file reported by gzip

[Guido Krein]

Dear List Members,

I don't know if this is the right mailing list.
I'm using tar to create a .tgz and it seems that when the file
is bigger than 2GB "gzip -l" reports the wrong uncompressed filesize
and also a wrong compression ratio. So this could be a tar, gzip
or a user specific problem.
I'm using debian sarge on a i386. The tar Version is 1.14 and the
gzip Version is 1.3.5

regards
Guido

For example:

tar -czf home2test.tgz /home2/test

ll
-rw-r--r--  1 test test 3820247961 2005-04-20 15:13 home2test.tgz

gzip -l home2test.tgz

compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
3820247961          1883213824 -102.9% home2test.tar