Bug#493540: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686-bigmem: fails to copy files/directories on USB storage media

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:06:29AM +0100, Stefan Oschkera wrote:
> > How large's the USB media in question? Are you maybe running into
> > limitations of the ancient FAT32 specs?
> 
> The tested USB devices were two memory sticks - 1GB and 8GB - and an USB HDD with a capacity of 120GB. The files transferred were all smaller than 500MB each, the test directory showed only a few subdirectories - so everything should have been well within the specs of FAT32. 

I've looked through the upstream commits, but couldn't find something
which directly relates to your problem. As a first data point, could
you test 2.6.30 from unstable? Even if you run stable, it installs fine
in Lenny.

Cheers,
        Moritz