[gdal-dev]GDALOpen failes on big files (FWTools2.1.0)

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Tue Mar 4 12:55:11 EST 2008


Oliver Eichler wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> sorry for the bad subject (Monday mornings....)
> 
>> I tried:
>>
>> gdal_translate -outsize 30000 10000 utm.tif out.tif
>> gdalinfo -mm out.tif
>>
>> with my currently fwtools tree build which should, I think, closely
>> match FWTools 2.1.0.  The utm.tif file has one 8bit band, so the out.tif
>> file is a 3GB TIFF file (not BigTIFF).  The translation seemed to work, and
>> the gdalinfo ran successfully.
>>
>> First, could you try the same steps I did, to see if they work for you?  If
>> not, then it must be something I have already fixed, and I'll just need to
>> issue a new release.  If it works, then there is something more specific
>> about your problem than just not reading geotiff files larger than 2GB and
>> you will need to narrow it down.
> 
> 
> gdal_translate failes with the same GDALOpen error (bad sanity check). Thus it 
> looks like a general problem of the 2.1.0 version.

Oliver,

I have uploaded a new FWTools cut.  Could you confirm whether it fixes the
problem or not?

   http://home.gdal.org/fwtools/FWTools211.exe

Best regards,
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