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Failed to scan very large files
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While scanning https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/tree/master/testdata @yashkohli88 reported that there were failures with vert large files in the silesia subdir: mozilla (a tarball), samba (a tarball), webster (a webster dictionary text file from 1913)
We should design a way to handle these properly.
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