Bug#731072: closed by Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu (Re: Fwd: Bug#731072: linux-image-3.11-2-amd64: Mounting of small ext2 file systems fails on 3.11)

2013-12-02 Thread Patrick Häcker
Thanks a lot for this detailed analysis (my file has exactly the predicted size) and your suggestions for further improvements. Please apologize my wrong conclusion and your waste of time as a result. I try to do better in the future. The question remains why the file system size and the

Bug#731072: linux-image-3.11-2-amd64: Mounting of small ext2 file systems fails on 3.11

2013-12-01 Thread Patrick Häcker
Package: src:linux Version: 3.11.8-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, due to the changed kernel configuration to disable the ext2 module and to enable CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y the support for small ext2 file systems has been (accidently?) removed. Small file systems here are file systems

Bug#731072: Fwd: Bug#731072: linux-image-3.11-2-amd64: Mounting of small ext2 file systems fails on 3.11

2013-12-01 Thread Patrick Häcker
Dear Ted, as you probably have the best overview of the context of this bug (#731072), I wanted to bring it to your attention. I think it would be especially interesting to know if this is a known upstream problem (sooner or later other distributions should be affected as well), and what you