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

[Oliver Eichler]

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.

Thanks for help

Oliver