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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001
2Ext3 Filesystem
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Jesper Juhlc63ca3c2006-01-09 20:53:57 -08005Ext3 was originally released in September 1999. Written by Stephen Tweedie
6for the 2.2 branch, and ported to 2.4 kernels by Peter Braam, Andreas Dilger,
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007Andrew Morton, Alexander Viro, Ted Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie.
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Jan Karac290ea02015-06-18 16:52:29 +02009Ext3 is the ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling capabilities. The
10filesystem is a subset of ext4 filesystem so use ext4 driver for accessing
11ext3 filesystems.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012