linux-ext4 - Re: EXT4: unsupported inode size: 4096

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Date:   Thu, 6 Feb 2020 17:52:52 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT4: unsupported inode size: 4096

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 04:35:42PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 
> I recently updated one of my servers from an older 4.19
> Linux kernel to the latest 5.5 kernel mainly because of 
> the many filesystem improvements, just to find that some
> of my filesystems simply cannot be mounted anymore.

Thanks for the bug report!  This was actually a regression caused by
recent security fix (which landed after 5.5, but which backported to
the 5.5 stable kernel).

The following should fix things.  Please let me know if you still have
problems after applying this fix.

					- Ted

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