gzip能压缩100GB的文件否？

我怎么感觉不可能。GNU的软件有这么大的能力？

[root@bsd cores]# gzip --version
gzip 1.3.3
(2002-03-08)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT
Written by Jean-loup Gailly.

我没有这样的主机测试，今天有人问我这个事情了。

你的100G是指最后生成的压缩包为100G还是原始单个文件为100G？

请问，这是IQ题么？