[gdal-dev] GDALINFO fails with large .tif raster

[Balint Cristian]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 05:27:01 am Marius Jigmond wrote:
> I am still struggling with this issue and I have a bit more
> information. One, Fedora 9 did not work on my new motherboard. I ran
> two different strace's on gdalinfo. One on the system that gdalinfo can
> read the raster, and the other on the system where gdalinfo fails.
> Something interesting was revealed at the end of the strace:
>
>
>
> 1. Working GDALINFO strace says:
>
> open("/media/hdb7/bands123.tif", O_RDONLY) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)

Hello Marius,

 On F9 there is no BigTIFF support only clasic GeoTIFF,
hence your strace result. My feeling is that you have
there a BigTIFF file.

  If you really want, i can ship you a custom 
libgeotiff+libtiff+gdal in form of 3 rpm package which 
support BigTIFF for fedora 9, but  off-list.


/cristian.