zip can not compress a file more than 4GB size under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64 bit system.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • zip fails to compress a file which size is more than 4GB in a 64 bit system with following error:
zip error: Entry too big to split, read, or write (file exceeds Zip's 4GB uncompressed size limit)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • zip-2.31-2.el5

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