diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mount-point-attributes/mpa_type_conversion.patch b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mount-point-attributes/mpa_type_conversion.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9900880f1a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mount-point-attributes/mpa_type_conversion.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+*** MountPointAttributes/src/MountPointAttr.h.orig	Wed Jul 31 10:08:33 2019
+--- MountPointAttributes/src/MountPointAttr.h	Wed Jul 31 10:09:55 2019
+***************
+*** 248,255 ****
+       */
+      struct FileSystemTypeInfo {
+          FileSystemType t;
+!         unsigned short speed;
+!         unsigned short scalability;
+          const char *fs_name;
+      };
+  
+--- 248,255 ----
+       */
+      struct FileSystemTypeInfo {
+          FileSystemType t;
+!         short speed;
+!         short scalability;
+          const char *fs_name;
+      };
+  
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mount-point-attributes/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mount-point-attributes/package.py
index e3a743b4a7f..ea29c077c97 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mount-point-attributes/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/mount-point-attributes/package.py
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ class MountPointAttributes(AutotoolsPackage):
     depends_on('autoconf', type='build')
     depends_on('automake', type='build')
     depends_on('libtool', type='build')
+
+    patch('mpa_type_conversion.patch', when='@1.1')