gzip from ports vs gzip from system

[Norberto Meijome]

Dan Nelson wrote:

> That looks like whatever filesystem gzip was writing to couldn't handle
> files over 2gb.  You mentioned writing to a remote filesystem using
> amd, but it defaults to NFSv3.  Were you maybe writing to a FAT fs on
> the remote end?  You can also see whether amd actually mounted the
> remote fs with NFSv2 by uncommenting the "/var/log/all.log" line in
> /etc/syslog.con, touching /var/log/all.log, and restarting syslog. 
> Then have amd remount the remote system and check the log.
> 

Thanks for the tip Dan. it was mounting as v2. Mounting by hand as v3 
addressed the problem, though why it was  dying @ 4 GB ( - 16K) instead 
of 2 GB baffles me.

The other variable here is amd, which I wanst using for the full, 
correct run ( 6 GB .gz file).

will see how it goes.

thanks for your help,
Beto