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1*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho Chehab.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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3*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho Chehab===============
4*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho ChehabExt3 Filesystem
5*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho Chehab===============
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7*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho ChehabExt3 was originally released in September 1999. Written by Stephen Tweedie
8*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho Chehabfor the 2.2 branch, and ported to 2.4 kernels by Peter Braam, Andreas Dilger,
9*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho ChehabAndrew Morton, Alexander Viro, Ted Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie.
10*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho Chehab
11*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho ChehabExt3 is the ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling capabilities. The
12*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho Chehabfilesystem is a subset of ext4 filesystem so use ext4 driver for accessing
13*7dc62406SMauro Carvalho Chehabext3 filesystems.
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